Oh, this book was awful! 
 It just rambled on and on. The jacket description was the only good part! The main character dies with absolutely no fanfare. Mom finds out she's dead and then we never hear about Mom again, after dancing around this love/shame relationship with the main character for the whole first section. The next chapter takes place three years later?! Then her daughter, what? goes crazy? It's so unexplained, and not in a thought-provoking way. Just an "excuse me, I think you forgot to finish this section of the book" kind of way. All this weaving in and out of lives for absolutely no reason. 
 Save yourself the trouble and don't even pick this one up.