WITH EMPATHY, GRACE, HUMOR, AND PIERCING INSIGHT, THE NEW YORK
TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GODS IN ALABAMA PENS A POWERFUL,
EMOTIONALLY RESONANT NOVEL OF THE SOUTH THAT CONFRONTS THE TRUTH
ABOUT FAMILY, RACE, AND THE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND
REALITY-THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES ABOUT OUR ORIGINS AND WHO WE
REALLY ARESuperheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs's
weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comic-book convention, the
usually level-headed graphic novel artist is swept off her barstool
by a handsome and anonymous Batman. She remembers he was tall,
black, and an excellent French kisser-but not much else.It turns
out the Caped Crusader has left her with more than just a fond,
fuzzy memory. That pink plus sign on the stick isn't wrong: she's
having a baby-an unexpected but not unhappy development. She always
wanted to fall in love and have a child, but as a young woman, she
learned exactly what betrayal felt like. Now she's thirty-eight and
dead single, having walked-no, run-away from every man she might
have married, trying to avoid more loss, more regrets.Before Leia
can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including
the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional lily-white
Southern family, her perfect stepsister Rachel's marriage implodes.
Leia wants to help, but Rachel is married to the very man who broke
her heart all those years ago. Worse, she learns her beloved
ninety-year-old grandmother, Birchie, has been hiding her rapidly
progressing dementia with the help of her lifelong best friend,
Wattie. Birchie is Leia's only living paternal relative, a proper
yet fierce woman who has long lived by her own rules in Birchville,
Alabama, the small town her family founded generations back. Now
this grande dame has started a row at the church fish fry that has
set every tongue wagging, pitted neighbor against neighbor, and
made it plain to Leia that her grandmother needs some serious
looking after.Heading seven hundred miles south, Leia plans to put
Birchie's affairs in order, clean out the big Victorian that has
been in the Birch family for generations, and break the news of her
blessed event. Yet just when Leia thinks she's got it all under
control, she learns that illness is not the only thing Birchie's
been hiding. Tucked away in a trunk in the attic is a dangerous
secret with roots that reach all the way back to the Civil War. Its
exposure threatens the family's freedom and future, and will change
everything about how Leia sees herself and her sister, her unborn
son and the possibilities of his absent father, and the warm and
friendly-yet deeply flawed and contradictory-world she thinks she
knows.Enchanting, wry, honest, and hopeful, The Almost Sisters
compels us to explore our own origins and the stories we tell
ourselves.
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