Elfrieda and Yolandi are very close sisters who grew up in a Mennonite community near Winnipeg with eccentric parents. While Elf becomes a successful concert pianist with a loving husband, Yoli is twice divorced and struggles to raise two children and write a novel. Despite her success, Elf is suicidal and determines to end her life. Yoli tries her best to help her sister, but what can you do when someone is clinically depressed? Most of all, can Yoli prevent this same tragedy repeating in her family?
AMPS is filled with endearing dialogues and is heart-wrenching. I enjoyed the Coleridge and Wordsworth poems in the context and simply couldn't put this book down, hoping that Elf would be OK in the end.
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