The sisters
Subtitle: a novel
By: Nancy Jensen
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux; Melia [distributor]
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; Godalming
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780312548414
Subjects: Sisters; Family secrets; Fiction; Separation (Psychology)
Description: "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."--P [4] of cover.