Little Sister

A Novel

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Pub Date May 23 2017 | Archive Date Apr 30 2017
General Fiction (Adult) | Literary Fiction

Description

Thunderstorms are rolling across the summer sky. Every time one breaks, Rose Bowan loses consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams about being in another woman's body.  Is Rose merely dreaming? Or is she, in fact, inhabiting a stranger? Disturbed yet entranced, she sets out to discover what is happening to her, leaving the cocoon of her family’s small repertory cinema for the larger, upended world of someone wildly different from herself. Meanwhile her mother is in the early stages of dementia, and has begun to speak for the first time in decades about another haunting presence: Rose’s younger sister.  In Little Sister, one woman fights to help someone she has never met, and to come to terms with a death for which she always felt responsible. With the elegant prose and groundbreaking imagination that have earned her international acclaim, Barbara Gowdy explores the astonishing power of empathy, the question of where we end and others begin, and the fierce bonds of motherhood and sisterhood.  

Thunderstorms are rolling across the summer sky. Every time one breaks, Rose Bowan loses consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams about being in another woman's body. Is Rose merely dreaming?...

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A Note From the Publisher

LibraryReads nominations are due by 3/20/17.

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Advance Praise

“At once suspenseful and lyrical, Little Sister transports its characters (and its readers) into different bodies and different eras. Brilliantly, devastatingly, Barbara Gowdy unveils the alternate possibilities hidden within the everyday.” - Helen Phillips, author of THE BEAUTIFUL BUREAUCRAT
“Little Sister is only the latest in the long line of complications I've faced when it comes to recommending my favorite Barbara Gowdy book. 'Oh, you haven't read Barbara Gowdy?' I'll say. 'You should try...' but then what? Which book should I name? The truth is that, in each and every one, she sees so deeply into her characters, and with such brightness, that their very cells seem to glow. Gowdy is, quite simply, a virtuoso.” - Kevin Brockmeier, author of THE ILLUMINATION
“Barbara Gowdy fills me with wonder. It is impossible to categorize her marvelous work, which is the highest compliment I can think of. Little Sister is no exception: a sui generis novel that offers all the excitements of a mystery while also exploring the strange workings of desire, empathy, identity, and memory. I won't sit through another thunderstorm without remembering this book and its generous surprises.” - Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, author of MS. HEMPEL CHRONICLES

“At once suspenseful and lyrical, Little Sister transports its characters (and its readers) into different bodies and different eras. Brilliantly, devastatingly, Barbara Gowdy unveils the alternate...

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ISBN 9781941040607
PRICE $24.95 (USD)
PAGES 300

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