| Edition |
First Paris Press edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 285 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
from Daybreak / Joan Baez -- I. DON'T TELL MOTHER. Don't tell Mother / Wendy Wasserstein -- Parable of the cake / Marilyn Chin -- The headless horseman / Margaret Atwood -- Shlug da kleine / Tsipi Keller -- Sweet dreams / Joyce Armor -- Docks / Jeanne M. Leiby -- The House slave / Rita Dove -- Reprieve / Claire Bateman -- from Memoirs of a dutiful daughter / Simone de Beauvoir -- Idella's dress / Beverly Jensen -- from The Liars' club / Mary Karr -- II. SISTER--SISTER. The Eve of the spirit festival / Lan Samantha Chang -- from Caroline's wedding / Edwidge Danticat -- Yellow dresses / C. D. Wright -- Sadie and Maud / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Twin bed / Ana Maria Jomolca -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Hannah / Catherine Chung -- Sister--sister / Marie Luise Kaschnitz -- Red scarf / Jane Hirshfield -- from I see you everywhere / Julia Glass -- A Lesson in manners / Misty Urban -- The Seal woman / Cynthia Hogue -- Without gloves / Martha Rhodes -- from Girl meets boy / Ali Smith -- sisters / Lucille Clifton -- from Hanging up / Delia Ephron -- III. HAVING OUR SAY. Not enough / M. F. K. Fisher -- Letter to Helen Rothschild Droste / Dorothy Parker -- Borderline / Robin Becker -- Letter to a sister who lives in a distant country / Daisy Zamora -- from The Poisonwood bible / Barbara Kingsolver -- A quarreling pair / Jane Bowles -- Recollections of a 79-year-old sister / Clare Cross -- A Family resemblance / Audre Lorde -- Close to the end / Barbara L. Greenberg -- Basque guide / Myra Shapiro -- Pagans / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- The Last good war / Maxine Kumin -- I needed to talk to my sister / Grace Paley -- from Having our say: the Delany Sisters' first 100 years / Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany -- Two years / Muriel Rukeyser. |
| Subject |
Sisters -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Freeman, Jan.
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Wojcik, Emily.
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Bull, Deborah.
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| ISBN |
9781930464124 alkaline paper |
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1930464126 alkaline paper |
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