Even though it has a relatively simple plot, What About Grandma? provides the reader with an engrossing experience. The plight of Grandma is the major conflict about which all other events revolve. On the way to resolution of the major problem, several unexpected developments take place.

These developments require much soul-searching among the principal characters. When Grandma decides not to spend her last days in a nursing home, her daughter and her granddaughter are forced to see themselves and Grandma in a new perspective.

Rhys is forced to determine her real position in a family in which she is called upon to take sides. Eve is forced to try to understand her relationship with her daughter and with her mother. Most important, she is faced with the prospect of deciding who she really is. The plot, simple and tight, provides continuity and suspense in the story...