Friday, May 27, 2011

The bird sisters, by Rebecca Rasmussen

Written by a local author who teaches at Fontbonne, The bird sisters, is a quiet but effective novel centering on two elderly sisters, Milly and Twiss, who still share their childhood room on the farm owned by their late parents. Their father met their mother on the golf links, where he was the pro. She is from a wealthy family; he isn’t, and her family has cut them off. When a lightning strike nearby causes the father to mysteriously lose his golf skills, and ultimately his job, family life becomes precarious. How the two sisters came to live on alone has its roots in the events in of their girlhood, when Cousin Bettie, whose parents are having their own difficulties, comes to live with them for that eventful summer. 304 pp.

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