Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (FIC Kal)

In her 70s, Margaret Hughes lives alone in the family mansion high on a hill in Seattle.  She is surrounded by the treasures, valuable pieces of porcelain and china, accumulated by her late father.  Dusting them and talking to them has become her life. When she is diagnosed with brain cancer, she realizes how isolated she has become and decides to makes drastic changes.  The first one is taking in a boarder.

Wanda Schultz has come west looking for her boyfriend.  He left her suddenly and her only clue is that he might be in Seattle.  Working as a tech in theater gives her plenty of time to look for him.  In Margaret she finds not only a place to live but a home.

Both women have lived with secrets and regrets for their entire lives.  As they come to know one another, their horizons are broadened.  And gradually, other people come into the house and a strange but very real family is formed.

Often, a book title has no real significance.  But this title speaks in many ways to not only the emotional state of the characters but the things that happen within the walls of the house.  And this statement from someone who doesn't every dive very deep into the meaning of books!

I enjoyed this book a lot.  Bad things happen but so do good things.  Some of it might be a little fantastical but it all seemed believable.  I really cared about Margaret and Wanda and their growing circle of friends.  And I was sorry when it came to an end.