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The Best We Could Hope For
Nicola Kraus
Little A
Publication Date: May 6th, 2025
284 Pages
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Genres: Women’s Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction
This book was dark and really sad but I liked it. This is a take on what childhood trauma can do to a family and how it reverberates through the generations until somebody stops the cycle. It shows how secrets can destroy an entire family.
There is so much to take in in this short novel. It was just 236 pages on my tablet, yet the author manages to cram in decades of this family’s life from 1943 Maryland to 2013 New York. The author did a wonderful job engaging me and packed so much in. I’m glad the book was short because it was so terribly sad, but it didn’t feel rushed or undone; it was perfect.
This one will stay with me for a long time because it was poignant and profound. The plot is well constructed, the characters are three-dimensional and the author writes in wonderful detail without getting too wordy. I love how the author paid attention to the specific time periods, she got the decades right regarding music clothing and TV shows.
This book was skillfully engaging, well crafted and handled some very serious, sensitive topical matters and it was done in a very sensitive way. It was ambitious and overall compelling. I’m trying really hard to avoid spoilers as this one is better going in blind. It is not for the faint of heart but I do recommend it.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers Copy.
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