Like A Sister: A Novel

Authors: Daugharty, Janice
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
BISAC/Subject: FIC045000, FIC019000, FIC028000
ISBN: 9780062028730, Related ISBNs: 0062028731, 9780060931797, 9780062028730
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 208,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

It is 1956, and thirteeen-year-old Sister must raise her three siblings on her own, as her mother, Marnie, has a new boyfriend who isn't interested in kids.  Taking charge of her life, Sister befriends  a kindly neighbor named Willa, who appears to be everything a mother should be.  But when a respected and powerful man in town notices that Sister is blossoming -- unsupervised -- into quite a young woman, trouble starts to brew.  Willa soon steps in to intervene, and Sister thinks she may have found salvation. But within the pages of Like a Sister, things are never what they seem.


Depicting a vulnerable, heartbreaking, and richly Southern world, Like a Sister allows readers to gaze through the eyes of a young whom they will not soon forget.


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