Mimi

Mimi Miller is the narrator of the novel, telling the events of the novel more than four decades after they have happened. Mimi is the daughter of Bud and Miriam, the niece of Ruth, and the younger sister of Eddie and Tommy.

During the time of the novel, Mimi grows from childhood into a young woman in her twenties, watching the way time changes herself, her family, and the place she calls home – Miller’s Valley, Pennsylvania. Mimi is very intelligent, very pretty, and very dedicated to her family. She delays going away to college to attend school locally to care for her father when he suffers a stroke, then goes on to study medicine so that she may become a doctor.

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Steven, due to Steven’s infidelity, Mimi falls in love with and marries her childhood friend, Donald, coming to raise...