I wish I had been more familiar with HB Stowe's "Christian perspective" writing at an earlier age. I recently re-read Uncle Tom's Cabin as a mature, Christian adult and there is so much that was missed as a teenage public school reader. So, now that I have read Pink and White..., I regret missing this as a younger parent to make it required reading for my teen children -- a book for today, that is still relevant to read together and discuss with them as a Christian family. Choices made from the characters in this story brought heartache, and divorce was not considered to escape an unhappy life---On one hand self-sacrifices were made and kept, and on the other hand, the end brought regret, sorrow and repentance on the realization that one had led a self-centered, selfish, wasted life and the toll it had taken. There maybe readers who read this as a very moralizing old-fashion tale, but for the Christian reader who understands significance of commitments and the cross of Christ, and all it entails, this is "a good read" meaningful for today.