This is a sort of memoir, the author had her mother's papers for her memoir and it sounds like incorporated those into this story which is also sort of her memoir. The tie into Jell-O is that that a relative way back bought the Jell-O patent from it's founder/discoverer and formed it into the huge sales it became. While it was sold off at some point, it was a huge profit and sounds like all relatives enjoy this money as some sort of trust. This connection to Jell-O money isn't really explored in the book, there was mention of the trust fund and how her mother was fighting with her mother's brother(author's uncle) about gaining more control of the money but really only played a minor point in the book. The book was more about a sort of curse on the family which sort of evolved into a curse on women fighting for a voice outside of the home and some sicknesses that came about. An interesting story about a mother and daughter relationship but seems like book was striving for more and I just didn't get that.
I have posted it on PBS, there were 2 WL and it has been accepted so will probably mail off in next few days.
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