When We Were Widows by Annette Chavez Macias

 

"Some people believe like me that we're connected to certain people because they're meant to be in our lives, meaning you're destined to have some sort of experience with them. Sometimes we meet these people before we're supposed to. Kind of like a 'wrong time, wrong place' sort of thing. So we drift apart, only to be pulled back together again by an invisible string when the universe decides you're both ready to be in each other's lives again."

                   -Evie, from the novel

Three generations of widows----Mama Melda, Ana Diaz and Yesica Diaz-Taylor must live together when a plumbing catastrophe forces Mama and Ana to move from their home to live with Yesica. As one might imagine there are long-time resentments that keep this living arrangement from being a happy time. All the women hold on to secrets that must gradually come to light in order for them to find understanding and compassion and the love they should have had as a family all along.

I rated the book a four, not a favorite but it kept my interest.