Not Quite Enough

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for an ARC of More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen.  I have long been a fan of Ms. Quindlen's books and have read all of her books.  This book gave me so much to think about.  While it is a pretty short book, it has many layers all pointing back to a central theme, relationships and loss.

The main character in this book, Polly Goodman, is a teacher at a private school and has been in a book club with friends for many years.  She and her husband have been struggling (unsuccessfully) to conceive a child.  As a joke, her book club friends gift her an ancestry kit.  The test comes back with some surprising results and Polly decides to investigate the results.  While this goes on, we learn that Polly's father has dementia and is living in a care facility.  He has good days and bad.  Polly's relationship with her mother, a judge, is strained but her relationship with her inlaws is good.  The book also explores several other relationships, her brother, a former spouse, a former student, book club members and the family identified by the ancestry test.  

The concept of this book was very interesting and I was excited to have the opportunity to read it.  The first part of the book was engaging but about halfway, I started to lose interest and struggled to finish.  Despite this, I enjoyed the book and especially the sweet, sweet ending.  

In the meantime, keep turning those pages…..