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| Original Title: | Sisterland |
| ISBN: | 1400068312 (ISBN13: 9781400068319) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Curtis Sittenfeld
Hardcover | Pages: 400 pages Rating: 3.36 | 36396 Users | 4720 Reviews
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| Title | : | Sisterland |
| Author | : | Curtis Sittenfeld |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | June 25th 2013 by Random House |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Audiobook |
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Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling 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 thought-provoking, Sisterland is a beautifully written novel of the obligation we have toward others, and the responsibility we take for ourselves. With her deep empathy, keen wisdom, and unerring talent for finding the extraordinary moments in our everyday lives, Curtis Sittenfeld is one of the most exceptional voices in literary fiction today.Rating Based On Books Sisterland
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This book pissed me off. I enjoyed it in a three star kind of way until about 2/3 of the way through. Until the book's "earthquake" that is and then all of the sudden I'm reading some cheesy Jodi Picoult book. Really? Vi virtually disappears from the story at this point.It made absolutely no sense that someone of Jeremy's caliber would find himself with someone as dull, unimaginative, incurious, and unambitious as Kate/Daisy. At least Sittenfeld could have made her lively or interesting outsideDaisy and Violet Shramm grew up as troubled young girls, struggling with their unhappy parents and being bullied at school, with their unusual abilities - they're psychic, a hazy set of abilities vaguely defined as their 'senses' - compounding these problems. Now the twin sisters are in their mid-thirties, and Daisy, who narrates this story, is married with two young children, having changed her name to the less distinctive Kate. Meanwhile, Vi has embraced the things that make her different; she
I went Back To The Future in this gem of a novel. Although it saddens me to think in fifty years teenagers probably wont get many of the pop culture references, Ive decided to live in the moment, or the recent past, as this novel clearly does. With The Simpsons, American Idol, Letterman, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, Rihannas Umbrella, Rolling Stone, Christina Aguilera, The Fugitive, The Way You Look Tonight, Today, Animal House, Spin Doctors, Blues Brothers, Monty Python, Good Morning
YepA fair crafted read that did hold my attention although it veered on the paranormal realm to fantasy for me.The concept of special powers is some things that lots of people believe but I just am not sure, call me Mrs Cynical.A 3.5* for holding my attention.
I think Curtis Sittenfeld is kind of underrated, and I've been trying to figure out why that is, and I was going to use this review to speculate about the reasons people might feel disappointed by her books despite the fact that I, personally, always enjoy them. Then I was reminded of how much it sucks when people can't explain why they like a book without condescending to the people who don't like it. Simply put, if you have to resort to talking about how other people don't "get" a book instead
Yuck.This was horrible.I love the idea of twins, I even want them someday, just ask my husband I talk about it all the time! And then the fact that this book had psychic twins?! Uh, duh yeah! I wanted to read it.But this book...just YUCK! I had to finish it to know what happened, but seriously I just don't care.This read more like a day to day life than I ever wanted to hear about. I read books to escape my day to day life, not read about someone else cleaning up baby poop or doing laundry.
This wasn't *PREP*, elite High School Boarding School classic ....or*AMERICAN WIFE*, ....or perhaps Laura Bush and the portrait of an enduring marriage....or*ELIGIBLE*....the retelling of Pride and PrejudiceIt's *SISTERLAND*.....a story about twin sisters, loyalty, betrayal, psychic abilities, parenting, an earthquake ...with excellent dialogue. I listen to most of this novel -audiobook ( a few times I read parts also)...I enjoyed it ....I'm a big Curtis Sittenfeld fan. I actually enjoyed this
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