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Three potentially good stories smashed into one mediocre novel

June 12, 2018 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

“She would say that we create our own reality-that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.” Daisy and Violet Shramm are identical twin sisters who grew up in St. Louis to an ambivalent mother and a much older father. They are also psychic. In the more present day Daisy, now going by Kate, is a stay at home mom to two young kids and the wife of a college professor, Jeremy Tucker, who teaches geology at the local university. She has renounced her […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Curtis Sittenfeld, Sisterland

Caitlin_D's CBR10 Review No:68 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Curtis Sittenfeld, Sisterland ·
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After early promise, kind of a let down

May 7, 2017 by ingres77 2 Comments

Sisterland is about identical twin sisters, both with psychic abilities, but with diverging ideas on what that means for them. One, Violet, embraces her gift while the other, Daisy, rejects them in favor of living a “normal life”. This disharmony is at the center of the book, and, as such, was a delight to read. Sittenfeld was a bit of a darling around these parts thanks to Eligible (and the fact that one of us knew her at one time), so I knew that I’d give […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Curtis Sittenfeld, ESP, Sisterland

ingres77's CBR9 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Curtis Sittenfeld, ESP, Sisterland ·
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