Sisters Born Sisters Found A Diversity of Voices on Sisterhood eBook Multiple Authors Laura McHale Holland
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More than an anthology of sibling stories, Sisters Born, Sisters Found is a diverse and compelling recollection of self-affirming, private connections—the sharing of insecurities, secret mischiefs, sad moments, partings, even an indestructible Arab-Israeli sistership. Although they share a commonality, each story is refreshingly unto itself.
— H.B. Reid, author, The Adventures of Charles T. Woolley
How refreshing to swing around this great, big world of ours following the stories of sisters. Whether factual or imagined, narrative or poetic, the short works in this appealing collection ring true. They’re told in all kinds of voices inflected with the music(s) of all kinds of cultures, and yet, they share a mutual esteem for sisterhood in its many manifestations. Not every sister here is admirable—how could they be to ring true?—but their stories accrue, re-calling us to memory, revealing others’ lives.
— Amanda McTigue, author, Going to Solace
For women this is not simply an anthology this is the definition of ‘sister’. For men it is a Diogenes lantern as a guide to understand or appreciate that elusive bond.
— Grady Harp, poet/author/historian, War Songs, The Art of Man, Vitruvian Lens
Sisters Born, Sisters Found A Diversity of Voices on Sisterhood reveals the core of female hearts, divulges secrets, and captures poignant, compelling, complex relationships. This vibrant collection of work from across the globe isn’t only about blood sisters or women who like each other. Sisters can bond over movie nights. Stuff snails down each other’s throats. Steal each other’s clothes—and lovers. Scrounge for food together, tell stories together, work magic together—even kill together. Seventy-six gifted writers explore all of this and more is in the memoirs, short stories, essays and poems that form Sisters Born, Sisters Found.
Sisters Born Sisters Found A Diversity of Voices on Sisterhood eBook Multiple Authors Laura McHale Holland
If you're looking for a book about sisters that's all gushy and sweet, you probably won't like Sisters Born, Sisters Found: A Diversity of Voices on Sisterhood. While some stories in this anthology of prose and poetry will make you shed happy tears with their perfect endings, other stories with Cinderella/stepsister twists will pluck your heartstrings in an off-tune howl.Edited by Laura McHale Holland, the book offers a global view of sisterhood in its many forms and through many voices. It is dedicated "To all women throughout the world whose birth families gave them siblings, to those who became sisters through other kinds of bonds, and all the sisters and brothers who love them."
Each story or poem in the book comes with its own voice and its own complexities of joy or heartbreak. The concept of sisterhood explored by the many writers ranges from fleeting moments of knowing someone as your sister soulmate to lifetimes of sharing experiences. Wherever a contributing author lives on the globe, her story is part of the whole. Particularly poignant is the tale about an Arab and an Israeli sisterhood with its background hints of Romeo and Juliet.
The stories are not simply happy or sad; most come with a mixture of true-to-life complexities. In Diana M. Madeo's story, "The Sister Pickers," for instance, two sisters are in harmony one moment and then fighting over who gets to buy an antique purse at a thrift shop. When an observer clears her throat in apparent disapproval, one sister responds, "Don't mind us... We have no life." "Quite the opposite," the observer says. "I had a friendship like yours once. It was sad when she moved away. What you two have is quite the life."
If you enjoy exploring the theme of sisterhood, you'll have a wonderful time reading Sisters Born, Sisters Found. Perhaps, as I did, you'll also feel that you've found a long-lost sister in a particular author through her words in this delightful anthology.
by Pat Bean
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
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Sisters Born Sisters Found A Diversity of Voices on Sisterhood eBook Multiple Authors Laura McHale Holland Reviews
Laura McHale Holland has compiled an extremely varied thematic collection - with one thing in common despite the numerous perspectives all the writers have strong voices. There is a lovely honesty in these pages which will force you to consider your ties and relationships with your own blood sisters and/or the sisters of your choosing.
Olivia Boler is a wonderful writer. She is the reason I read this book. And it's worth buying the book for her two pieces alone. She has written a poem and a memoir. I related to her poem as I had a similar experience growing up of an intense friendship that was "an exclusive club for two". Her poem She Proves It is about many things including the passing of time and how during it, good and important friendships can - and should - endure. Olivia's other piece, The Greyhound Station, is equally excellent, and reflective. It makes you feel sorry for people who don't have sisters as she taps into the loneliness that comes with being a (part-time) only child.
Other stand-out pieces for me were The Truth of It by Dipika Kohli; Devora's Changes, which is about the sadness of mental illness in the family, by Marie Judson Rosier; Hero, which is an intensely personal piece by Pamela Taeuffer; Safe to Dream by Lauren McHale Holland who is an excellent writer; and Nancy Pogue La Turner's Sister, I Need You.
It's not just women writers; there are a smattering of men. There is pain, reflection and sometimes humor - like in Sisters in Scribe by Diane Sismour, which I loved.
I have three sisters, all very different from each other and all very dear to me, as well as a number of "found" sisters, so the idea of an anthology on sisterhood was intriguing to me. I found this anthology to be widely diverse, insightful, and highly entertaining, as well as poignant, thought-provoking, and heartfelt.
Rather than a collection of read-alikes, the stories and poems in this anthology provide a surprising array of feelings and views. It isn't just all about the warm and fuzzy; there is heartbreak, disappointment, injustice, and sadness, as well. Many of the stories express deeply complex relationships that include both the positive and the negative, a reflection of how truly complicated relationships, particularly close relationships, can be. With voices from around the globe, it is amazing to see not just our differences, but how similar we all are.
Reading Sisters Born, Sisters Found will impart an experience not soon to be forgotten. It provides a rich opportunity to dip into the lives of others for just a few moments and will expand and forever change your view on what sisterhood is.
I didn’t have a sister and grew up in so many different places, constantly moving, that I didn’t have even a “pretend” sister. My Sisters were the nuns at the Catholic schools I attended for grade school, high school, and my first two years of college challenging and demanding sisters, but not exactly close or chummy. In my family of origin, I was the middle child between two brothers; we went our separate ways, seldom shared our feelings.
So it was with great curiosity that I read the authentic and surprisingly entertaining anthology, Sisters Born, Sisters Found. I expected that this book would reveal an unknown world of relationships to me. And it did!
I now know what a sister is not because of any single story in the wide range of experiences collected within this anthology, but because the book listens with the heart of a sister. The unique and compassionate bond that is the best of sisterhood is evident in the way each story is honored, framed, and shared. Read this book! You’ll find the sister you always wanted—in the validation of women’s deeply shared lives.
If you're looking for a book about sisters that's all gushy and sweet, you probably won't like Sisters Born, Sisters Found A Diversity of Voices on Sisterhood. While some stories in this anthology of prose and poetry will make you shed happy tears with their perfect endings, other stories with Cinderella/stepsister twists will pluck your heartstrings in an off-tune howl.
Edited by Laura McHale Holland, the book offers a global view of sisterhood in its many forms and through many voices. It is dedicated "To all women throughout the world whose birth families gave them siblings, to those who became sisters through other kinds of bonds, and all the sisters and brothers who love them."
Each story or poem in the book comes with its own voice and its own complexities of joy or heartbreak. The concept of sisterhood explored by the many writers ranges from fleeting moments of knowing someone as your sister soulmate to lifetimes of sharing experiences. Wherever a contributing author lives on the globe, her story is part of the whole. Particularly poignant is the tale about an Arab and an Israeli sisterhood with its background hints of Romeo and Juliet.
The stories are not simply happy or sad; most come with a mixture of true-to-life complexities. In Diana M. Madeo's story, "The Sister Pickers," for instance, two sisters are in harmony one moment and then fighting over who gets to buy an antique purse at a thrift shop. When an observer clears her throat in apparent disapproval, one sister responds, "Don't mind us... We have no life." "Quite the opposite," the observer says. "I had a friendship like yours once. It was sad when she moved away. What you two have is quite the life."
If you enjoy exploring the theme of sisterhood, you'll have a wonderful time reading Sisters Born, Sisters Found. Perhaps, as I did, you'll also feel that you've found a long-lost sister in a particular author through her words in this delightful anthology.
by Pat Bean
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
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