A review by jadior
Inheritance from Mother by Minae Mizumura

2.0

I feel a bit funny giving this book only 2 stars while others seem to have loved it, but I found it quite uneventful. It is a story of two sisters who are dealing with their ailing mother. It's not a spoiler because one of the first sentences in the book is that the mother has died. The book talks about how the mother was raised by her mother, and how she raises her girls. Then goes on to talk about their relationships with the men the marry, but mostly their relationship with their mother. I waited for something to happen but found the book predictable and just plain flat. Maybe it's me, I seem to be finding a lot of books that end up flat this summer.