![]() ![]() “You’ll read for the quality of the prose, but also the amazing depth of characterization and mystery. “A taut, disturbing, and brilliantly written psychological drama of the first order,” writes Jeff VanderMeer. In one passage they narrate in a conjoined voice: “It would have surprised neither of us to have found, slit open, that we shared organs, that one’s lungs breathed for the both, that a single heart beat a doubling, feverish pulse.” An eerie psychological drama, Sisters wrestles with the most extreme of family ties. Their bond becomes increasingly intimate and troubled. In their new environment, the siblings are even more friendless and dependent upon each other than usual. ![]() The girls, July and September, had been struggling in school July was mercilessly bullied and September was growing increasingly volatile as she fought on her sister’s behalf. In Sisters, a single mother and her two teenaged daughters upend their lives in Oxford, England, and move to an isolated home at the edge of the sea. This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Daisy Johnson, whose second novel, Sisters, is out today from Riverhead Books. ![]()
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