This book won prizes in Canada and I am not sure why. This was my choice for one of my bookclubs. And I didn't even like it very much. My bookclub seemed to like it however. The premise was interesting. Two sisters from a small town in Canada part ways in 1934. One heads to New York for a career in radio and the other stays behind working as a school teacher. The book follows them over the next couple of years. It sounded interesting enough, but I didn't like how the author--a man--described Clara's feelings around sex and motherhood. Clara is the sister that stays behind. At one point she gets raped and then she fantasizes about that and goes out of her way to find the guy that did it. It is too weird. I just don't like it when men attempt to imagine what a woman might be going through. It becomes very stereotypical and contrived. The book contains a lot of references to literature, radio, and film at the time, which was interesting. 5.
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