Sisterland

Blurb

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY Slate Daily Candy St Louis Post Dispatch The Guardian U K Novelists get called master storytellers all the time but Sittenfeld really is one What might be most strikingly excellent about Sisterland is the way Sittenfeld depicts domesticity and motherhood Maggie Shipstead The Washington Post Psychologically vivid Sisterland is a testament to Curtis Sittenfeld s growing depth and assurance as a writer Michiko Kakutani The New York Times Sittenfeld s gifts are in full effect with this novel and she uses them to create a genuinely engrossing sense of uncertainty and suspense Sloane Crosley NPR s All Things Considered Curtis Sittenfeld author of American Wife and Prep returns with a mesmerizing novel of family and identity loyalty and deception and the delicate line between truth and belief From an early age Kate and her identical twin sister Violet knew that they were unlike everyone else Kate and Vi were born with peculiar senses innate psychic abilities concerning future events and other people s secrets Though Vi embraced her visions Kate did her best to hide them Now years later their different paths have led them both back to their hometown of St Louis Vi has pursued an eccentric career as a psychic medium while Kate a devoted wife and mother has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children But when a minor earthquake hits in the middle of the night the normal life Kate has always wished for begins to shift After Vi goes on television to share a premonition that another more devastating earthquake will soon hit the St Louis area Kate is mortified Equally troubling however is her fear that Vi may be right As the date of the predicted earthquake quickly approaches Kate is forced to reconcile her fraught relationship with her sister and to face truths about herself she s long tried to deny Funny haunting and thou