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The Sisters: A Novel av Nancy Jensen
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The Sisters: A Novel (utgåvan 2011)

av Nancy Jensen (Författare)

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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.… (mer)
Medlem:Ellen_R
Titel:The Sisters: A Novel
Författare:Nancy Jensen (Författare)
Info:St. Martin's Press (2011), Edition: 1St Edition, 336 pages
Samlingar:Ditt bibliotek
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Taggar:fiction, sisters, coming of age, kentucky, family relationships

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The Sisters av Nancy Jensen

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It was an easy enough read 300 pages but I finished it in a day. It didn't wrap up pretty and neat which although I complain about in every book that does that I also find myself complaining when it doesn't do that. In my head it eventually wraps up neater than the author left it. There were some relationships in it I wish had been explored more in depth. I liked all the sisters even the entirely disfunctional ones but I do wish one set of sisters had atleast somewhat of a healthy relationship with each other. I don't have sisters but I like to hold out hope my girls wont be as messed up as all the sisters were in this book. ( )
  MsTera | Oct 10, 2023 |
A novel on family tragedy. Miscommunication and misunderstanding. Then people not understanding their own family members or accepting them for who they are. It starts with Mabel and Bertie and a wicked stepfather and deception. These two sisters never return to each other and their separate generations all struggle in the family unit . It’s quite a sad novel and tries to tell us to be honest with each other and listen to each other. ( )
  Smits | May 28, 2022 |


Loosely tied together.. Had so much potential... Too many sister character stories for one novel-she couldn't weave it to connect them appropriately- wouldn't recommend. ( )
  Betsy_Crumley | Jan 28, 2021 |
This novel about sisters starts in Juniper, Kentucky in the 1920's with Mable and Bertie. Through a series of miscommunications, bad luck and stubbornness the sisters separate. The reader hopes for the sisters to reunite throughout the story. The novel follows the lives of the sisters through several generations and the lives that the sisters live are very radically different from one another. It is not a hopeful story of sibling relationships. But is does show the toll that one wrong decision can take on a relationship. ( )
  Rdglady | Nov 20, 2018 |
I liked the idea of this book much more than the execution. Following two sisters from adolescence through old age--this is the kind of family saga I usually like, and exactly what I was in the mood to read. But the jumping around among characters and time periods was disorienting, and in the second half of the book I kept losing track of exactly who Lynn and Grace and Rainey were. Adding to this confusion was the fact that none of the sections had distinctive voices; pick a random paragraph from any point in the book and you would be hard-pressed to say whose chapter it was.

The relationship between Rainey and Lynn and Carl was not handled well and I was never entirely sure what the author was trying to say about Carl.

The only character that really interested me was Mabel, and I was somewhat frustrated with her plot points -- neither her actions in the first chapter nor the way she became a mother made much sense to me. ( )
  GaylaBassham | May 27, 2018 |
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"Set against the dramatic backdrop of American history from the Great Depression into the 21st century, this beautiful but disturbing debut novel, inspired partly by the author's own family history, will engage readers of well-written, thought-provoking women's fiction."
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Millions of years of human life, and still there was no more arduous battle than crossing the border into someone else’s heart. Or to stand aside and wave him across your own. Maybe it wasn’t possible to know another person, not entirely. Maybe it wasn’t possible to do more than show the desire to now, offering some sort of symbol, creating touchstone.
They had all been raised up on secrets, things never expressed but linked through time to all the other members. . . . the tangled secrets and what they had wrought.
Whatever we carry inside us shapes everyone we touch.
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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.

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