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The Moon Sisters is about will-o-the-wisps, trainhopping, and unrealized dreams…but mostly it’s about sisterhood. So we’re celebrating the release of this novel by gathering some of our favorite bloggers to share their take on sisterhood. First up is Therese Walsh, author of The Moon Sisters, who is visiting The Muffin to tell us about sisterhood in her family.
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Sisters Forever: Aimee, Therese, and Heather |
On Sisterhood
by Therese WalshI have two beloved sisters, both younger, and our interactions with each other—the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful—are all reflected in the story of The Moon Sisters. They’ve also helped to create some of the most memorable moments of my life.
I was eight when my first sister was born, and shortly thereafter—which trying to figure out the mechanics of a diaper—I stepped away from the changing table and my sister rolled over (a new trick!) and fell onto the floor. She wailed as I panicked. I lied to my mother about what had happened until guilt got the better of me, and then I fessed up and apologized.
Earliest lesson: Sisters can get you into trouble.
Also: Never step away from a changing table.
Once, when that same sister was older, she took our youngest sister’s favorite pair of pants and drove them to an embankment and threw them into a stream. Our youngest sister had been driving her crazy for one reason or another, and retaliation had seemed a good option at the time. But somehow, some way, my youngest sister knew—just knew—that our middle sister had taken the pants. Not only that, she had a feeling where those pants had ended up. She actually found them, filthy, wet, at the bottom of the ravine.
Lesson: Sisters know things. Don’t try to prevent this knowledge.
Life with sisters is made up of a million little moments when you’re all living together under the same roof. Waiting together for the ice cream truck. Trying to cheer one another up with crazy antics like dancing stuffed animals. Food experimentation. Secret-telling. Talk of love and sex and politics and health and family and life and death. Everything. Secrets are rare, and the bond can be extraordinarily strong, even when sisters are miffed with one another.
Honesty—it’s the way of sisters, even when it causes conflict.
Now that we’re all grown, we’re just as close as ever. Maybe closer. We’ll never again wonder if that missing CD is in someone else’s bedroom or what happened to that pair of pants!
Last summer I had a health scare, which thankfully turned out just fine. While one sister, in town, visited with me and soothed with face-to-face contact, my other sister, from away, communicated by phone and sent a constant stream of positive thoughts in my direction. Both strengthened me during one of the most tenuous times of my life.
Sisters can be maddening and nosy, and supportive and loving. My sisters are a vital part of my bedrock, and my life with them has helped to define me in complex and significant ways.
Do you have a sister story to share? I’d love to hear it.
About The Moon Sisters
In The Moon Sisters, her second novel, Therese Walsh wanted to write about one sister’s quest to find will-o’-the-wisp light, which was her mother’s unfulfilled dream. Also called “foolish fires,” these lights are sometimes seen over wetlands and are thought to lead those who follow them to treasure. Despite the promise, they are never captured and sometimes lead to injury or even death for adventurers who follow them. The metaphor of that fire – that some dreams and goals are impossible to reach, and that hope itself may not be innately good – eventually rooted its way into deeper meaning as the Moon sisters tried to come to terms with real-world dreams and hopes, and with each other, in their strange new world.
Olivia and Jazz Moon are polar opposites: one a dreamy synesthete, able to see sounds and smell sights and the other controlling and reality driven. What will happen when they are plunged into 24/7 togetherness and control is not an option? Will they ever be able to see the world through the other’s eyes and confront the things they fear the most? Death. Suicide. The loss of faith and hope. Will they ultimately believe that life is worth living, despite the lack of promise?
The writing of The Moon Sisters was a five year journey and at times author Therese Walsh felt like it was her own “foolish fire.” But remember, some fires are worth the chase!
Hardcover: 336 pages (also available in e-formats)
Publisher: Crown (March 4, 2014)
ISBN-10: 0307461602
ISBN-13: 978-0307461605
ASIN: B00F1W0E1M
Read a review of The Moon Sisters on the Muffin here.
Thanks to Therese who is giving away a print copy of The Moon Sisters. Just enter the Rafflecopter form below to be entered in the drawing.
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Want more chances to win? Visit all the other bloggers talking about sisterhood today to enter.
Who else is talking about sisterhood?
The blogs listed below have all decided to share their stories, essays, poems, photos, or other means of creative expression on the topic of sisterhood. We really have no idea what bloggers will come up with, but we can't wait to find out! So check out the blogs listed below and see what they're up to!
Lit Ladies
Deal Sharing Aunt
The GaGa Sisterhood
The Unfaithful Widow
Caroline Clemmons
A Ponderance of Things
Choices
Laurie Here
Thoughts in Progress
Me and Reading
One Sister’s Journey
Words by Webb
Mother-Daughter Book Club
Vickie S. Miller
One Writer’s Journey
Renee’s Pages
Cassandra M’s Place
A Book Lover’s Retreat
Brooklyn Berry Designs
Biblioteca
I Love to Read and Review Books!
Traveling with T.
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Blog: Beth Kephart Books (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This morning, the very dear and very smart Priya turns 15, and because her sister, Maya, adores her and hopes to surprise her and knows that we are out here wanting the same, she asked if we might post a little something in remembrance of this special day.
I had been wondering about what I might post, and then I had an idea that took me back into an old wooden photo album. Perhaps, I thought, there is a photograph of me and my sister, something I might share. I turned every page, didn't find the right shot. I sifted through envelopes stuffed into the book's back pages. It was in the very last envelope that I found this image, something I don't remember ever seeing before. I must have been four here, my sister newborn. Our mother more beautiful than one can say.
Happy Birthday, Priya, from one sister to another.
Love,
Beth
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Diana, Melinda and I celebrated the arrival of "Women Only Over Fifty" books last night with chocolate/chocolate cake!
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Got WOOF: Women Only Over Fifty books yesterday!
The pre-order Amazon link is up, too! It's a great week!
I'll be selling WOOF and Cynthia's Attic series at the Decatur Book Festival. If you're in the area, stop by and say, "Hi!"
Co-writers, Melinda, Diana and I are getting together Sat. night for a WOOFers meeting! Should be a "howling" good time! (groan)
What a beautiful idea! Thanks for sharing, Beth. :)
What a gorgeous photo, which of course I've never seen either. What a lovely way to pass on memories, and their evolution!
So glad you let me know it was here.
great post - and happy birthday to Priya.
What a beautiful photo. Happy birthday Priya and a wave to Maya.
I'm glad you had an excuse to dig this up. It's beautiful. Happy Birthday, Priya. (by the way you have one terrific sister.)
How sweet is that ... what a beautiful photo. I have three sisters ... love them!
Thank you so much, Beth! And thanks for sharing the photo! I was so surprised and happy when I just checked my Google Reader and found this. :D
How sweet and lovely :)
Happy birthday to Priya!