Marion Roach Smith’s alternate sisterly reality, with Margaret Roach.
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. [click to continue…]
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CREEPY SISTER FICTION is not that hard to come by. Sisters, after all, provide great territory for things to go seriously wrong. And watching them go there has that certain can’t-take-your-eyes-off-this quality. So it is with the masterful psychological thriller The Sister, by Poppy Adams. A debut novel written in the voice of older sister Ginny, whose ordered life gets wildly disrupted by the return of sister Vivien, the book is part ghost story, part love story, and every inch a neo-Gothic tale. [click to continue…]
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I KNOW I SAID it. And I meant it. There is no such thing as writers’ block. And no such thing as getting stuck. But then a few years ago, writing my third book, I was having total structure breakdown. The book, in a million little pieces, would not braid together, and since the book was about red hair, braiding was a real issue. [click to continue…]
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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? Those are the questions posed, poked, provoked, and provided by the haunting new novel, The Story Sisters, by Alice Hoffman. [click to continue…]
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THE OLD DAYS: In Grandma's garden.
First time here? Here's the idea: The Sister Project 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 on our homepage 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: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.