All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There is very minimal, if any, joy in this one, so you may have to be in the right mindset to read it. It became a novel about what happens when the one person who matters to you—the person who holds a whole family together—is lost.

I will say that on top of everything else going on in the book, Cloud’s story, which is tragic, is a little much. The relationship between Dorothy and Marge – We find out that when Kate was sick and dying, Margie would go over and sit with Dorothy at her house.It's also about the pursuit of the American Dream, offering glimpses into key events, trends, and cultural mores in our country's history. Much of the Netflix series Firefly Lane takes cues from the book version—with a few key differences.

It’s a compelling, dark, and raw look at how much a person’s life can change due to unforeseen circumstances. Now Kate has died of cancer, and Tully, whose once-stellar TV talk show career is in free fall, is wracked with guilt over her failure to be there for Kate until her very last days.

And what Marah must have been going through the entire year that Tully was in a coma —feeling so guilty for her role in what happened to her, especially seeing the magazine with the story open to the page in Tully’s apartment.