Anyway, after a few hiccups, I finally got the book. I was concerned that I wouldn't finish it in time to return it. I needn't have worried.
The book tells the story of Rose (Rosalind), Bean (Bianca), and Cordy (Cordelia). They are the daughters of a literature professor that specializes in Shakespeare. Rose is the eldest, engaged, and has no intention of leaving the college town where she grew up with her sisters. Bean and Cordy left at the first opportunity.
Bean lives in New York, but things don't turn out quite they way she wanted them to. She ends up back with her parents. Cordy lives the life of a wanderer. And it's not just that she likes to move around. She won't stay in one place long enough to ever have a permanent address (or a temporary one, really). Of course, she too goes back home when circumstances change drastically for her.
Rose had moved back in with their parents, since their mother has breast cancer and starts treatment a little before Bean and Cordy moved back in. And nothing brings out the best and the worst in a family than a crisis.
Brown decided to tell the story from the perspective of the sisters. Basically, all three of them are telling the story, almost as a chorus. Of course, they admit and hide their faults in very human ways. And although the line in the book that made it to the dust cover was this one: "See, we love each other. We just don't happen to like each other very much." But towards the end, you really get a sense that they start to like each other.
To a certain extent, anyway.
Next up: Dead Reckoning, by Charlaine Harris.
