Forever sisters
Subtitle: famous writers celebrate the power of sisterhood with short stories, essays, and memoirs
By: edited by Claudia O'Keefe.
Contributors: O'Keefe, Claudia.
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Sisters -- United States -- Literary collections.; American literature -- Women authors.; American literature -- 20th century.; Sisters -- United States -- Biography.; Women and literature -- United States.
Description: Alice Walker tells a mother's tale of reunion between her daughters: one trapped by tragedy in the dirt-poor South, the other making it big in the city. In an engrossing short story, Marilyn French movingly depicts two young women growing apart in an alcoholic, dysfunctional family. Joy Fielding shapes a humorous but sharp-edged story of the consequences when half-sisters meet for the very first time on a TV talk show.

Ann Beattie tells of a pair of friends, as close as sisters, locked in a smothering embrace. In a bittersweet tale, Fae Myenne Ng writes of growing up in a culture that considers a family with only girl children "failed." Recalling her grandmother and great-aunt, Olivia Goldsmith unfolds a dark memoir of sisterhood gone terrifyingly awry. Cristina Garcia relates a poignant account of sisters separated for thirty years, one trapped in Cuba, the other escaped to Miami, reunited at long last.

And Rita Dove retells one of the classic fairy tales of sisters, Beauty and the Beast, from the disparate viewpoints of all the women involved.