I almost stopped reading this book, but I decided to see it to the end and see what was up with Helen. In retrospect, I don't regret finishing it, but I probably should have just stopped reading. The book was fine, but the author did too much over-explaining. For example, at one point Ruby---narrating in the first person---says she ate natto and then defined "natto." This sort of thing happened frequently enough that it ruined the flow and kind of made me wonder if the author thought I was stupid (or didn't know how to use an internet search). 
 I also didn't find the three women's voices distinct enough for the shifting narrators to work for me. Each was supposed to be hiding things from herself and her friends, but when narrating in the first person, they were all surprisingly introspective and self-aware. It just struck me as false. It might have worked better had it been a third-person narrator with a shifting perspective so we could have seen each woman's actions from the outside. 
 Also, I'm not sure I buy the large Finnish population in Plain City, Ohio. I'd never heard of a large Finnish population in Ohio at all, so checked it out on Ohio History Connection. According to that site, there were relatively few Finnish Ohioans in the early 20th century, and Union County wasn't one of the places with a significant population of Finns. I looked at a few other sites, and it seems See would have done better to put her Finnish town closer to Cleveland.