The Good Daughters follows the lives of two families who had daughters born in the same hospital, in the same town, on the same day. Told from the alternating points of view of these "birthday sisters," Ruth and Dana, we travel with these two very different women as they navigate love, life and loss.
Joyce Maynard's story is well written and easy to read, and I finished it in one sitting. Not that the plot is plainly straightforward. There is a twist here, a secret that changes everything, but it seemed to me that Maynard crafted her story in such a way that the secret wasn't the payoff. Rather, by the time it is revealed, I was invested in Ruth and Dana so the way they reacted to this new truth was more important than the revelation iteself. Moving forward from the 1950s, Maynard draws you into the lives of Ruth and Dana and their very different families, the lives they create for themselves and the way they deal with the secret that changes everything.
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Thank you to HarperCollins Canada for the review copy.
