SisterSister
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Book, 1996
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Current format, Book, 1996, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsIn her remarkable second novel, A. Manette Ansay tells the story of Abigail Schiller, a girl who lives a seemingly normal childhood in a small Catholic community in Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother Sam, unable to live up to his father's rigid ideas of masculinity, mysteriously vanishes at the age of seventeen. Haunted by both Sam's disappearance and memories of violence that her mother denies, Abby finds herself increasingly unable to reconcile her own life with the wishes of her family and the Catholic Church.
The second novel by the author of the critically acclaimed Vinegar Hill relates the story of Abigail Schiller, who returns to the small Catholic Wisconsin community of her youth to investigate her brother's disappearance. Tour.
Abigail Schiller returns to the small Catholic Wisconsin community of her youth in an effort to understand her younger brother's disappearance and to reconcile the past and present
Now thirty years old and expecting her first child, Abby realizes the past she tried to run from holds the key to her own future and to that of her child. She embarks on an emotional journey that retraces her brother's descent into feelings of worthlessness and a world of drug abuse, a journey that contradicts everything she once believed about her family and herself.
Sister is the poignant story of a woman's search for memory and meaning, the reconciliation of present and past within the complicated fabric of family. With grace and compassion, A. Manette Ansay spins hard-won triumph out of tragedy, testifying to the indelibility of the human spirit.
The second novel by the author of the critically acclaimed Vinegar Hill relates the story of Abigail Schiller, who returns to the small Catholic Wisconsin community of her youth to investigate her brother's disappearance. Tour.
Abigail Schiller returns to the small Catholic Wisconsin community of her youth in an effort to understand her younger brother's disappearance and to reconcile the past and present
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