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Sister to sister : women write about the unbreakable bond / edited by Patricia Foster. - 1st ed. - New York : Doubleday, 1995. - 354 pages ; 22 cm

The early days of her conversion / Robin Behn -- Last things / Debra Spark -- The shadow of the mountain / Joan Wickersham -Temporary Shelter / Donna Gordon -- The other half / Lucy Grealy -- Earth / Jesse Lee Kercheval -- Leah behind the veil / Lori Hope Lefkovitz -- Borderline / Kathleen Norris -- My Gertrude Stein / Bonnie Friedman -- Girls together / bell Hooks -- The boat train / Maria Flook -- Traveling to Pridesup / Joy Williams -- The gift of Margaret / Joy Harjo -- Sisters and secrets / Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- My sister's suicide / Louise DeSalvo -- A letter to my sister who doesn't exist / Pam Houston -- The distance between us / Patricia Foster -- Letters from Flora / Meena Alexander -- Sisters / Mona Simpson -- What is Cinderella's Burden? / Erika Duncan.

A collection of twenty essays and stories which explore sisterhood in terms of everyday life, twinship, family violence, loss, marriage, and hope.



ISBN: 0385471289 9780385471282 0385471297 9780385471299

LCCN: 95010486

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American prose literature--Women authors.
American prose literature--20th century.
Femininity--Fiction.
Femininity.
Sisters--Fiction.
Women--Fiction.
Sisters.
Women.
American prose literature.
American prose literature--Women authors.
Femininity.
Sisters.
Women.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Fiction.
Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS647.W6 / S57 1995

Dewey Class. No.: 818/.540808352045