Shred Sisters

Betsy Lerner

eBook - 2024

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZENo one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister."I love this book. It moves like a souped-up pickup truck." — Patti Smith, author of Just Kids and M TrainFrom Betsy Lerner, celebrated author of The Bridge Ladies, comes a wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sistersIt is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight until her stunning confidence becomes erratic and unpredictable, a hurricane leaving people wrecked in her wake. Younger sister Amy, cautious and studious to the core, believes in facts, proof, and the empiric...al world. None of that explains what's happening to Ollie, whose physical beauty and charisma mask the mental illness that will shatter Amy's carefully... more