Like a Sister - A Novel

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.

Product details

• Authors: Janice Daugharty
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.11.2000
• EAN: 9780060931797
• ISBN: 978-0-06-093179-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Science Fiction / General, FICTION: Fantasy / General, FICTION: Coming of Age, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Southern