Reviewed by Lynette Fowlston for Readers' Favorite

"Photographs and Memories" is a story that many older children face today, dealing with older parents and death. The story centers around two sisters and their parents. Angela, who lives in New York and works with children as a social worker and, Martha, an alcoholic who has been married a couple of times, can't hold a job, and is just a down-and-out sponge. Now,Martha, is living with her older parents. Her mother fights with her constantly, while her father agrees with her. When Angela and her husband move to Florida to try and straighten things up, Angela`s world is about to go from bad to worse.

Trying to hold down a job, get her sister into rehab, take care of her parents, and be there for her husband, she thinks about her past. She thinks about what it was like when she and her sister were younger, how her parents treated them as they were growing up, her marriages and her children. With the sudden death of her mother, her father's health getting worse, placing him in a nursing home and the death of her sister., can she cope? Just when she thought it couldn't get much worse, her husband dies suddenly. How does Angela cope with all that has happened in one year? Now that she is all alone, and facing a bleak future, can she face her losses and move on?

This is a very emotional story, and a harsh reality, one that most adult children have either faced or will face in the future. This is a fast read that will grab the reader from the beginning.