The sisters : [a novel] / Nancy Jensen.

Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other--with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade...

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Main Author: Jensen, Nancy, 1961-
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Sisters > Fiction.
Separation (Psychology) > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Kentucky > Fiction.
Indiana > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Physical Description:viii, 324 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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Summary:
Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other--with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of misunderstandings that will divide the sisters and reverberate through three generations of women.
Call Number:PS3610.E573 S57 2011
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780312542702 (hbk.)
0312542704 (hbk.)