I had a problem with this book and the two main characters Callie and her estranged mother Clio. The story takes place in NY and Greece, and when Callie travels to Greece because her beloved uncle died and left her the contents of his house, she tries to unravel the family secrets hidden since WW-2. Her mother had fled NY and returned to Greece after her husband died and tries to stop her daughter from delving into the past. She hardly speaks to her sisters and their children and Callie does not understand why the family does not speak to her mother, who is mean spirited and unlikeable.

Callie joins the Carnivale celebration before Lent, meets some wild friends, gets all dressed up in masks, has sex and drinks to excess, and wonders if she still loves the finance she left in NY.

I found a lot of the book boring, I disliked and couldn't relate to the characters, didn't enjoy the tradition of the Carnivale, which lasted many days, didn't understand many of the Greek words, and found out the family secret of what happened during the war fell flat!

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Callie has recently lost her uncle with whom she was very close to and he has left her everything he has back in his home in Greece where her estranged mother and aunts and cousins live. She must return to Greece during Carnival to sort through his things where she finds the stories that she grew up listening to from her mother, but for some reason what she finds doesn't mirror the details in the stories that she heard during her childhood.

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