Comments on: Sisterly Read: ‘The Sisters Antipodes’ http://thesisterproject.com/orloff/sisterly-read-the-sisters-antipodes/ Paige Smith Orloff invents sisterhood from scratch. Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:14:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tammy http://thesisterproject.com/orloff/sisterly-read-the-sisters-antipodes/comment-page-1/#comment-388 Tammy Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:37:30 +0000 http://thesisterproject.com/orloff/?p=1795#comment-388 I have a cousin Ginger, who married her sister Mary's husband after her sister Mary (my cousin as well) died during an operation. Mary and the husband had children. Ginger and the husband have since had children, so the children are half-brother/sister and 1st cousins as well. It can become complicated. The other amazing thing about this family saga is it happened before in the family. A great uncle's wife died and he then married the sister. You just can't make this stuff up, can you. I have a cousin Ginger, who married her sister Mary’s husband after her sister Mary (my cousin as well) died during an operation. Mary and the husband had children. Ginger and the husband have since had children, so the children are half-brother/sister and 1st cousins as well. It can become complicated.
The other amazing thing about this family saga is it happened before in the family. A great uncle’s wife died and he then married the sister.
You just can’t make this stuff up, can you.

]]> By: paige http://thesisterproject.com/orloff/sisterly-read-the-sisters-antipodes/comment-page-1/#comment-387 paige Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:14:00 +0000 http://thesisterproject.com/orloff/?p=1795#comment-387 Amazing, Millie. You're right--when your family story is stranger than fiction, you might not need to make stuff up; though, of course, it can be easier to present hard truths as make believe than as history. That might be why Alison wrote several novels before tackling her own tale... Amazing, Millie. You’re right–when your family story is stranger than fiction, you might not need to make stuff up; though, of course, it can be easier to present hard truths as make believe than as history. That might be why Alison wrote several novels before tackling her own tale…

]]> By: millie rossman kidd http://thesisterproject.com/orloff/sisterly-read-the-sisters-antipodes/comment-page-1/#comment-386 millie rossman kidd Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:43:44 +0000 http://thesisterproject.com/orloff/?p=1795#comment-386 For a good friend of ours in NYC, this was true story for her as well. Her family and a family down the road each divorced, switched, and remarried. It was a wild tale that supposedly had worked out in the end with everyone happy, including the kids, though she did admit that it was hard living it as a kid. I suppose with family fodder like that why write fiction? For a good friend of ours in NYC, this was true story for her as well. Her family and a family down the road each divorced, switched, and remarried. It was a wild tale that supposedly had worked out in the end with everyone happy, including the kids, though she did admit that it was hard living it as a kid.

I suppose with family fodder like that why write fiction?

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