The Book Borrower

I'll admit, I really did not like this book from the get-go. But one of my book club friends kept telling me she LOVED it, and that it took a while to get into but it would get better. She was right; it started getting more interesting around page 80, though I still didn't think it was that exciting a book. It's a story of two women, Toby and Deborah, who have built a friendship over the years. When they first meet, Deborah lends Toby her husband's favorite book, Trolley Girl, about the trolley strike in the 1920s and the resulting accident that ended both the strike and one little girl's life. Over the decades, the book is long forgotten, but the two women must learn to deal with other losses as well.