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The Weird Sisters
Paperback, 320 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $15 | purchase
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Book Summary
Unwillingly brought together to care for their ailing mother, three sisters who were named after famous Shakespearean characters discover that everything they have been avoiding may prove more worthwhile than expected.
Awards and Recognition
15 weeks on NPR Paperback Fiction Bestseller List
Genres:
This book is about:
- Terminally ill parents,
- Middle-aged women,
- Domestic fiction,
- Fiction,
- Sisters
NPR stories about The Weird Sisters
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Love Comes Around: In Marriage, In Families, In Sickness, In Foster Care
Rose, Bean and Cordy were named after the Bard's well-known Rosalind, Bianca and Cordelia, respectively — which tells you something about their overzealous Shakespearean academic father. As he raises them, he continuously recites poetry as a form of parental advice. But the Shakespeare overkill in Brown's fictional family hints at deeper issues that the father and sisters must deal with when they learn that their mother has been diagnosed with breast... more
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'Weird Sisters' Quote Shakespeare To Communicate
February 6, 2011 Eleanor Brown speaks with Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen about her new novel, The Weird Sisters, which imagines the lives of three sisters and their obsessive Shakespearean scholar father who prefers iambic pentameter to normal, everyday conversation.
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