Sisterland
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<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<br><br><b><b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY </b><br> <b><i>Slate • Daily Candy • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian</i> (U.K.)</b><br><br>“Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one. . . . What might be most strikingly excellent about <i>Sisterland</i> is the way Sittenfeld depicts domesticity and motherhood.”—Maggie Shipstead, <i>The Washington Post</i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br> <b>“<b>Psychologically vivid . . . <i>Sisterland</i> is a testament to [Curtis Sittenfeld’s] growing depth and assurance as a writer</b>.”—Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br> <b>“[Sittenfeld’s] gifts are in full effect with this novel, and she uses them to create a genuinely engrossing sense of uncertainty and suspense.”—Sloane Crosley, NPR’s <i>All Things Considered</i></b><br></b><br>Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, Kate and her identical twin sister, Violet, are extremely close—sharing a room, weathering the eccentricities of their parents, and delighting in the music and movies of their 1980s childhood. But in junior high, Kate makes a fateful decision that drives the sisters apart and sets them on different paths toward adulthood. Years later, Vi is living on the fringes of society while Kate, a devoted wife and mother, is doing everything she can to fit into suburban life. After a chance occurrence in the middle of the night, the sisters find themselves drawn together once again, forced to face the secrets of the past and to reconcile the differences between them. As the sense of order Kate has worked so hard to create in her adult life begins to falter, it’s not clear to her whether Vi, the one person who knows her best, will save Kate—or be her undoing.<br> <br> <b>Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.</b><br> <b> </b><br>“What’s most <b>captivating</b> about <i>Sisterland</i> is the <b>intimate, intense</b> portrayal of identical twin sisters. . . . [The novel] unfolds like a good prophecy—inevitable and shocking.”<b><i>—San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br><br>“In [<i>Sisterland</i>]<i>,</i> the accomplished Sittenfeld . . . is as skillful as ever at developing an intriguing premise and likable characters. . . . <b>Sittenfeld’s affectionate take on sibling rivalry is spot-on</b>.”—<b><i>People</i></b><br> <br> “The power of [Sittenfeld’s] writing and the force of her vision challenge the notion that great fiction must be hard to read. She is <b>a master of dramatic irony, </b>creating fully realized social worlds before laying waste to her heroines’ understanding of them. . . . <b>Her prose [is] a rich delight</b>.”—<b><i>The Boston Globe</i></b><br> <br> “<b>Wise and often wickedly entertaining</b> . . . Readers who have siblings—especially women with sisters—will likely come away feeling as if the author really is psychic, able to learn the truth of their own dark secrets, and forgive them.”—<b><i>USA Today</i></b>
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