I thought this was a perfectly decent read, but nothing to write home about. It’s a story of a group of college friends who reunite later in life to mourn the death of one of the friends. They take a cruise down the Mississippi River to scatter the dead friend’s ashes. The story goes back and forth between their time in college and the present day. I started out reading it in paperback (a gift from my sister-in-law), but ended up listening to it as an audio book.

I hope this gets a whole heck of a lot better soon. (It didn’t. It wasn’t sure if it wanted to be “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood,” or “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.” The two styles didn’t combine well at all.