From the book jacket:
Ann Pearlman’s The Christmas Cookie Club enthralled readers everywhere with a heartwarming and touching story about the power of female friendship.
Now, in A Gift for My Sister, she once again explores the depth of the human heart, and this time it’s through the eyes of two sisters. Tara and Sky share a mother, but aside from that they seem to differ in almost every way. When a series of tragedies strikes, they must somehow come together in the face of heartbreak, dashed hopes, and demons of the past. The journey they embark on forces each woman to take a walk in the other’s shoes and examine what sisterhood really means to them. It’s a long road to understanding, and everyone who knows them hopes these two sisters can find a way back to each other.
Ann Pearlman, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Nominee, is the author of Infidelity: A Memoir, The Christmas Cookie Club, and The Christmas Cookie Cookbook. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Tara’s father died when she was young. Her mother remarried and had another girl, Sky. Sky’s father left when she as just a baby, and was never involved in her life. Now there were two fatherless girls. Tara was never close to her little sister, however. They each went their own way and lived their own lives.
Tara is now married with a daughter, and Sky is traveling with a rap band and her young son. Until tragedy strikes, and Tara’s husband dies. She needs the help of her sister and her band to move cross country, back to where the family lives. While traveling cross country with their young children, Tara and Sky are finally able to come to terms with their childhoods and what life has dealt them. They develop the sister relationship they had never had before.
A Gift For My Sister is a great story line. I did enjoy reading about the sisters, their relationships, their children, and their mother. However, this book uses swear words and crude language. I understand how the author felt that some of the language was necessary, because of the characters being involved in rap music. As a reader, however, I found it totally unnecessary. Because of this, I can not recommend this book. I’m not happy about that. As I did think the story line was a great one.
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