In her novel Winter Garden, Kristin Hannah creates a family story in which there is much pain, resentment, envy, anger and loss. There is also love in many forms, love between sisters who have chosen very different paths in life- the older, "responsible" sister who stays home and takes care of the family business and the younger, adventurous sister who goes away to see the world and do "important" things. There is the love for the strange Russian mother who is emotionally distant from her American daughters and there is the love of the mystery of her life before she was their mother, the life that seems to inspire the "fairy tale" she reluctantly tells them.
