The People We Keep

Finished this a few days ago, completely forgot to review, whoops! First of all, marking a book set in the mid-90's as “historical fiction” hurts my soul in a very old-millennial way, but I think the rule of thumb for that is twenty years before the publication year, so it definitely fits, I'm just a crone. I really enjoyed this story, but I thought the pacing was just a little off - there was so much time spent on Ithaca that it seemed like the latter parts of the story didn't get as much focus/attention/development as I would've liked. This is one of my Book of the Month choices, and I hesitated on getting it because they described it as “inspirational,” which is usually code for religious, specifically Christian (sometimes specifically evangelical). Luckily, none of that here, just hurt people finding their way to each other and to making the best life they can together.