The sisters
(2011)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/JENSEN,N

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/JENSEN,N Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

viii, 324 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780312542702 (hbk.), 0312542704 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other--with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of misunderstandings that will divide the sisters and reverberate through three generations of women