WHAT HAS GREATER IMPACT, the stories we tell ourselves, or the stories others tell us? When the subject is us, which do we believe more, and what if the teller is our sister? Those are the questions posed, poked, provoked, and provided by the haunting new novel, The Story Sisters, by Alice Hoffman. Sister Marion read it, and has a thing or two to say in response.
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First time here? Here's the idea: TSP is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: 
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No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men. 
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