I feel kind of bad giving this less than par review, but I didn't like this book all too much. I will admit that it was beautifully written and there was so much description and beautiful sounding prose that I liked, but the plot was dreadfully slow and depressing. I honestly think that the only thing that kept me going after the first several chapters was the need to know how and when everyone would gradually find out about the horrible thing that David Henry did to his family by giving away his new daughter who was born with Down Syndrome. Had the book been poorly written, I don't think I would have been able to finish it. It depressed to read about these people's lives which didn't seem to get any better with age and only seemed to get sadder and sadder as their time went on. No one was close, and those were were seemed to have other issues. Strangely enough, I would recommend this book, but only to people who can read realistic books, and perhaps romance novels, because ultimately, this was a (strange) happy ending.