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Average rating3.3
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamourous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.'Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their emigre engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth.But the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget...
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I came across this title and thought it was so odd that I had to get it. Then I read it and it seems like something very common. I did not read this expecting a funny novel. There may have been light hearted parts and it ends well. You will like it better if you don't expect it to be funny. More poignant, less funny.
The main character begins to re-evaluate herself and her family as she finds out all the things they wouldn't say in the process of removing their father's new bride. The characters are more sympathetic than I expected. The ending is happier than I expected as well. This is not my typical genre, but I'm glad I picked this one up.