Eleanor Gates' Tapes on the Front Stove is a fascinating family drama about the relationship between a mother and daughter across several generations. The author successfully combines warmth and pain, wisdom and difficult choices in the description of women's destinies. Readers will experience together with the heroines, feeling every important moment of the journey through life, where the main thing is to be able to feel and understand each other. "Ribbons on front stoves" is a book that reminds us of the importance of family and the connections between its members.