Sisterhood

Throughout Kelley’s novel, the three sisters learn how to rely on each other, trust each other, and grow with each other as love life and life pushes them together. Their grandmother’s dying wish was that they would grow closer, not because they were not already friends, but because life had scattered them across the world. Emma was in Arizona, Jill was in Manhattan, and Mandy was in Nantucket. “’You don’t spend enough time together. It’s important to be near family, to be close to them, always,’” Grams tells them on her deathbed (23). “’I want you to go to Mimi’s Place and be together. That is my gift to you. That, and my love for you always’” (23-24). Indeed, being forced to work together at Mimi’s Place for a whole brings the sisters into a profoundly close bond, closer than they...