SISTERS UNDER PRESSURE is always a good place from which to plot a story. After all, with all that history between any set of sisters (you didn’t really think you are the only one who has issues with your sister did you?), it’s a good bet that if you squeeze the pair a bit, some interesting things will happen. They do, in a new novel, and they do it quite well, indeed.
A Soft Place to Land, by Susan Rebecca White, pushes sisters Ruthie and Julia where no sisters may ever want to go, and does it beautifully. Opening with the sudden accidental death of the girls’ parents, the book spans 20 years, watching as the sisters heal, search, change, grow and complicate their own sisterhood in ways that are both realistic and stunning to watch. Swept up from the beginning, you’ll be swept all the way through the story.
Susan Rebecca White is the author of the previous critically acclaimed Bound South, and teaches creative writing at Emory University.
Just published as a trade paperback by Touchstone Press, this is a book to grab and read with the sisterhood, sisters. Enjoy.
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Thought this might be of interest for beach reading! And looking forward to it.
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Hi, Elizabeth. And welcome to TSP. Hope you enjoy it. And do come back soon for more.
Hi to you both, two sisters I grew up with…was I playing with Margaret or Marion’in your beautiful home.!!!!!!!!!!!! So many memories…and as the stories of sisters continue to grow, so I have my multiple of “sister memoirs” with my sister…
Just spent the past weekend with Holly…great as always…
and yes, I have two daughters, very different in character as Holly and I were..No doubt my two, Laura and Lindsay, could add a vast quantity of info to a sisterhood project!!! Hope to catch up with you soon… Yes, I am the dancer! as is my youngest at 21..!! Kerry
So glad to hear from you, Kerry. Wow. What a long time it has been. Welcome to TSP, where we particularly love our lifetime sisters. Please look around, and read aroud the site. We’d love you to come back for any more visits. Love from both Roach sisters.