Sisters Edith and Helen have never really gotten along. Older Edith is a bit of a stick-in-the-mud, though one that will never hesitate to support her loved ones; younger Helen, however, fell in love with beer the first time she tasted it as a teenager, and (as younger sisters are stereotypically wont to do) focuses on her own dreams and desires in a way that Edith has never considered. When their father wills his farm to Helen and leaves nothing to Edith, their relationship breaks in a way that seems completely irreversible, despite Helen's good fortunes and Edith's tough life of caring for everyone through poverty. Can Edith's beer-brewing granddaughter Diana bring them back together?
Told through chapters that skip between narrators and time periods, I'll admit that it took me a while to warm up to this book and some of the characters. But as I read, everyone became so realistic to me, and, as more and more beer got brewed, the more I liked it. Perhaps that says something about my beverage choices, but this was a good one, whatever your drinking preferences.
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