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WITH EMPATHY, GRACE, HUMOR, AND PIERCING INSIGHT, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GODS IN ALABAMA PENS A POWERFUL, EMOTIONALLY RESONANT NOVEL OF THE SOUTH THAT CONFRONTS THE TRUTH ABOUT FAMILY, RACE, AND THE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND REALITY--THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES ABOUT OUR ORIGINS AND WHO WE REALLY ARE
Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs's weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comic-book convention, the usually level-headed graphic novel artist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman. She remembers he was tall, black, and an excellent French kisser--but not much else.
It turns out the Caped Crusader has left her with more than just a fond, fuzzy memory. That pink plus sign on the stick isn't wrong: she's having a baby--an unexpected but not unhappy development. She always wanted to fall in love and have a child, but as a young woman, she learned exactly what betrayal felt like. Now she's thirty-eight and dead single, having walked--no, run--away from every man she might have married, trying to avoid more loss, more regrets.
Before Leia can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional lily-white Southern family, her perfect stepsister Rachel's marriage implodes. Leia wants to help, but Rachel is married to the very man who broke her heart all those years ago. Worse, she learns her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother, Birchie, has been hiding her rapidly progressing dementia with the help of her lifelong best friend, Wattie. Birchie is Leia's only living paternal relative, a proper yet fierce woman who has long lived by her own rules in Birchville, Alabama, the small town her family founded generations back. Now this grande dame has started a row at the church fish fry that has set every tongue wagging, pitted neighbor against neighbor, and made it plain to Leia that her grandmother needs some serious looking after.
Heading seven hundred miles south, Leia plans to put Birchie's affairs in order, clean out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations, and break the news of her blessed event. Yet just when Leia thinks she's got it all under control, she learns that illness is not the only thing Birchie's been hiding. Tucked away in a trunk in the attic is a dangerous secret with roots that reach all the way back to the Civil War. Its exposure threatens the family's freedom and future, and will change everything about how Leia sees herself and her sister, her unborn son and the possibilities of his absent father, and the warm and friendly--yet deeply flawed and contradictory--world she thinks she knows.
Enchanting, wry, honest, and hopeful, The Almost Sisters compels us to explore our own origins and the stories we tell ourselves.
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: new. First Edition. With empathy grace humor and piercing insight the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege family and the distinctions between perception and realitythe stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really areSuperheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs weakness One tequilasoaked night at a comics convention the usually levelheaded graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous BatmanIt turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice fuzzy memory Shes having a baby boyan unexpected but not unhappy development in the thirtyeight yearolds life But before Leia can break the news of her impending singlemotherhood including the fact that her baby is biracial to her conventional Southern family her stepsister Rachels marriage implodes Worse she learns her beloved ninetyyearold grandmother Birchie is losing her mind and shes been hiding her dementia with the help of Wattie her best friend since girlhoodLeia returns to Alabama to put her grandmothers affairs in order clean out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations and tell her family that shes pregnant Yet just when Leia thinks shes got it all under control she learns that illness is not the only thing Birchies been hiding Tucked in the attic is a dangerous secret with roots that reach all the way back to the Civil War Its exposure threatens the familys freedom and future and it will change everything about how Leia sees herself and her sister her son and his missing father and the world she thinks she knows. Seller Inventory # DADAX006210571X
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