Mind of winter

e: when i wrote this review i had rated it 3 stars it's been 2 years and I still think about this book a lot and barely remember the parts that have dragged. at some point i changed the rating to 4 stars which reflects my views now better.

At one point of the book I was sure I would drop it. The main character would not stop complaining. About “picky eaters” (which definition includes people with allergies and vegetarians), her teenager not wanting to waste plastic and buying clothes secondhand, modern medicine, vaccines, anything. The book was also very repetitive, it's used to for effect but for the most part the effect was exasperation on my part. It had a strong start, and a strong end, but the middle is way way too long. Overall it's still a shorter book, so I'm glad I stuck with it. The ending was satisfying, and made interesting points about adoption and motherhood.