Sisters
Daisy Johnson
(Author)
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE TOP TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR --PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR --VULTURE "Daisy Johnson is the demon offspring of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King." --The Observer (London)"Builds a gothic plot to an artful and shocking climax." --The New York Times
"Ends with a magnificent twist." --The Boston Globe From a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out. "One of her generation's most intriguing authors" (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior--until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls' past and future. Written with radically inventive language and imagery by an author whose work has been described as "entrancing" (The New Yorker), "a force of nature" (The New York Times Book Review), and "weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling" (Celeste Ng), Sisters is a one-two punch of wild fury and heartache--a taut, powerful, and deeply moving account of sibling love and what happens when two sisters must face each other's darkest impulses.
Product Details
Price
$26.00
$23.92
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Publish Date
August 25, 2020
Pages
224
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.3 X 0.8 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780593188958
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About the Author
Daisy Johnson is the youngest author ever shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, with her first novel, Everything Under, in 2018. Her short story collection, Fen, received the 2017 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She lives in Oxford, England.
Reviews
Praise for Sisters "Daisy Johnson is one of the best writers in this country ... an astonishing stylist. Sisters is a thumping good book, haunting, visceral and potent." --Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers "A taut, disturbing, and brilliantly written psychological drama of the first order. You'll read for the quality of the prose, but also the amazing depth of characterization and mystery. Another great book from one of our finest writers."--Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation "Daisy Johnson is an enchantress who can turn the day into night and back again in a sentence. I love her prose so much, and this book was the sibling love-and-horror story of my dreams and nightmares."--Karen Russell, author of Orange World "Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction" --Lauren Groff, New York Times- bestselling author of Florida "This is a book that makes you remember why you first fell in love with reading. I was haunted by it. Utterly unique."--Evie Wyld, author of All the Birds Singing