The Good Sister
Roxanne Callahan has always been her younger sister's caretaker. Now married, her happiness is threatened when beautiful and emotionally unstable Simone, suffering from crippling postpartum depression, commits an unforgivable crime for which Roxanne comes to believe she is partially responsible....
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Roxanne Callahan has always been her younger sister's caretaker. Now married, her happiness is threatened when beautiful and emotionally unstable Simone, suffering from crippling postpartum depression, commits an unforgivable crime for which Roxanne comes to believe she is partially responsible. In the glare of national media attention brought on her sister, Roxanne fights to hold her marriage together as she is drawn back into the pain of her troubled past and relives the fraught relationship she and Simone shared with their narcissistic mother. At the same time, only she can help Simone's nine year old daughter, Merell, make sense of the family's tragedy. Cathartic, lyrical, and unflinchingly honest, THE GOOD SISTER is a novel of four generations of women struggling to overcome a legacy of violence, lies and secrecy, ultimately finding strength and courage in their love for each other.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780446535786 (0446535788)
ASIN: B005HKL3KE
Publish date: October 1st 2010
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pages no: 324
Edition language: English
Category:
Book Club,
Drama,
Health,
Family,
Contemporary,
Sociology,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness,
Abuse
Really hard subject matter. Postpartum depression/psychosis is a hard subject to read about but I think the author did an okay job showing some of the symptoms/things that can happen. The timeline jumped around a lot and it was quite an abrupt ending I thought. Here's the verdict, here's 3 years l...