{"product_id":"sisters-the-hc","title":"Sisters, The HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’s 24 Essential Reads of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’s Ten Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of the BBC’s 10 Best Books of the Summer | A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTimes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e(London) Best Book of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“One gawps . . . at its breadth and ambition. [\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sisters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is] a transnational tour de force.” ―Alexandra Jacobs, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“One of this summer’s most buzzed-about novels.” ―Nilanjana Roy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A classic story about sibling rivalry . . . One of the best novels I've ever read about the complexities of mixed heritage.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―Fredrik Backman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sisters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e] generates every kind of heat . . . If you welcome this novel into your mind, it will warm and transform you.” ―Tess Gunty, National Book Award–winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rabbit Hutch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Astonishing . . . Every character―every sentence―is startlingly, indubitably alive.” ―Katie Kitamura, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAudition \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIntimacies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn addictively entertaining family saga by a National Book Award finalist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeet the Mikkola sisters: Ina, Evelyn, and Anastasia. Their mother is a Tunisian carpet seller, their father a mysterious Swede who left them when they were young. Ina is tall, serious, a compulsive organizer. Evelyn is dreamy, magnetic, a smooth talker. And Anastasia is moody, chaotic, a shape-shifting presence, quick to anger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIna meets her future husband when she’s dragged to a New Year’s rave by her sisters, only to suffer the ultimate betrayal. Evelyn drifts through life before embarking on a wild career as an actress. And Anastasia runs off to Tunisia, where she falls in love with a woman who, years later, will transform her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the sisters from afar is Jonas, the son of a Swedish mother and a Tunisian father. Over the course of three decades, his life intersects with the sisters, from a chance encounter in Tunis to the scene of a fighter jet crash in Stockholm. When Evelyn disappears on a trip to New York, Jonas manages to track her down―and helps her to break the curse that has been looming over the Mikkolas for decades. In the process, a shocking revelation changes everything about who they think they are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrated in six parts, each spanning a period ranging from a year to a day to a single minute, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sisters \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a big, vivid family saga of the highest order―an addictively entertaining tour de force.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52553125789927,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/511HJ9B-xCL.webp?v=1788296634","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/sisters-the-hc","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}