This was a wonderful, emotional read that I am glad I had the chance to enjoy.

The story takes you through a world where our narrator physically has the memories of the women passed through to her via a tapestry. This heirloom contains the ability for the current owner to relive the memories through the eyes and feeling emotions of a past ancestor. Specifically, we see the world through the eyes of the narrator's grandmother - then leads to the narrator's own mother. Symbolically, it honed in on how things like history, trauma, beliefs, even small moments pass down throughout each daughter - not always necessarily willingly.

As an eldest daughter, I was deeply moved and drew parrallels to my grandmothers and my mother. I question what was passed down to me and why. What are things I will never be able to feel that my mother/grandmothers lived through. While I was not knowledable on the specific pieces of history that takes place in the story, I felt the emotions the characters felt and invested in how the characters would play their roles during these events.

This is a story of women empowerment, love, the human experience, tradegy, and how this shapes not just a person - but generations to come. If you want to feel something and be hooked by these amazing, realistic characters, then I highly recommend this