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The Almost Sisters

By: Joshilyn Jackson
Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson
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Summary

With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of Gods in Alabama presents a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality - the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are.

Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs' weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman.

It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She's having a baby boy - an unexpected but not unhappy development in the 38-year-old's life. But before Leia can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, her step-sister Rachel's marriage implodes. Worse, she learns her beloved 90-year-old grandmother, Birchie, is losing her mind, and she's been hiding her dementia with the help of Wattie, her best friend since girlhood.

Leia returns to Alabama to put her grandmother's affairs in order, clean out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations, and tell her family that she's pregnant. 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 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 it will change everything about how Leia sees herself and her sister, her son and his missing father, and the world she thinks she knows.

©2017 Joshilyn Jackson (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers

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Desperate hated it just nonsense I couldn’t get into at all just nonsense too American

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Not for me.

This was an easy audible to listen to and the characters were likeable however it was similar to something a teenager would write with constant references to comics and batman, the storyline was weak and the racial element was cringe. I have never heard of this author but it was recommended as an audible on some review. There are 25 chapters and I made it to 23 I couldn't stick it any longer and that is unlike me.

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Loved it

I couldn't stop extending the sleep timer until the early hours of the morning when I'd already listened for about 4 hours! The story has so many things going on but it all works so well together and comes together beautifully. I loved the descriptions of the Violet and Violence comics too - I could picture it so well. And the parallels and imagery from it is used so well. The southern accent got a bit grating at times (eg. Martina Mack) but I assume that was on purpose!

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Genius!

I loved everything about this book. The story is beautifully crafted and the language just extraordinarily strung together ...full of tiny insights and huge truths and moments that make you laugh out loud . Joshilyn Jackson reads with the skill of an actor and draws you into the life of the novel until you almost believe you belong there. So sad to have finished it . I will now find more of her work to explore ....thanks to my book club for pointing me in the direction of all this enjoyment

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