When I found out that I'd won an advance copy of this novel through a Goodreads First Reads giveaway, I was a little skeptical, since the last few books I've won have not really been to my liking. And when I heard that this is the story of a woman who goes to Greece to uncover her mother's long-kept secrets, that didn't help matters any. I thought back to all the melodramatic "women's novels" I've read where the secrets turn out to involve rape, incest, and/or murder, and I was afraid this would be another book in that same vein, where really terrible deeds of long ago are made better just by talking about them. 
 Thankfully, it's not that kind of book at all. Callie does travel to Greece, and along the way she does uncover some family secrets, but they are not as melodramatic as they might be, and nothing is solved neatly in the end. Furthermore, Callie never really discovers the whole unvarnished truth, as she gets different versions of different stories from different family members, who can't even seem to agree upon what the big family secret is! The reader is not left in the dark, however, as immediately after Callie pieces together a fragmented version of a certain event, we flash back to the real story from her mother's point of view. What we gradually realize is that there is no one story that defines a person or a family; many things, both good and bad, happened to the Notaris family to shape their destiny, and to shape Callie's mother into the person she became. Eventually Callie realizes this as well, and she ends the book with the understanding that while it is important to acknowledge the past, what really matters is the future we all help create together. 
 I really enjoyed this novel. Power is a very gifted writer who can turn even the smallest anecdote into a spellbinding tale. I'd be very glad to go on another journey with her in the future.