Such Devoted Sisters
Categories: Staff Picks , Fiction
Last month, I blogged about Elisabeth Robinson's The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, a novel about a woman overwhelmed by her sister's recent cancer diagnosis. This got me thinking about other novels dealing with the relationship between sisters. There are some really good ones out there. Here are a few:
- In Her Shoes--Jennifer Weiner--Philadelphia lawyer Rose Feller and her younger sister Maggie try to repair their fractured relationship with the aid of their long-lost maternal grandmother, Ella.
- Rise and Shine--Anna Quindlen--After an on-air gaffe threatens her career, Manhattan talk show host Meghan Fitzmaurice turns to her younger sister, Bridget, for guidance.
- The Girls--Lori Lansens--Deserted by their mother shortly after birth, Canadian conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen struggle to adapt to their unusual situation.
- A Tale of Two Sisters--Anna Maxted--London lawyer Cassie Montgomery, unable to conceive a child, has a hard time dealing with her sister Lizbet's unplanned pregnancy.
- A Piece of Normal--Sandi Kahn Shelton--Connecticut advice columnist Lily Brown is thrown for a loop by the sudden reappearance of her sister, Dana, whom she hasn't seen in ten years.
- A Taxonomy of Barnacles--Galt Niederhoffer--A romantic comedy in which six Manhattan sisters--Bell, Bridget, Beth, Belinda, Beryl and Benita Barnacle--fight to inherit their father's massive fortune.
2 Comments
I thought your list of books about sisters was great. I had lunch recently with a friend who was talking about Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. That book, along with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, are also wonderful novels about the complex nature of the bond between sisters.
I really enjoyed The Girls (even though I thought there was no way I could read another book about conjoined twins after reading Love Will Tear Us Apart). It was so curious to read their different voices and try to fathom what it would be like to have another person connected to your body for your entire life. Good list!