A little slow to start with but wow... what an amazing book! Once Clara got taken to Willard, I couldn't put the book down. While I didn't really connect at much with Izzy, both her and Clara's stories are tragic and yet they both survive. I do wonder why Izzy never mentioned what her mother had written in her letters to Peg and Henry? I know it's a minor detail but it seems something that huge, she would think to mention.