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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:The Girlsby Helen Yglesias
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The youngest of four sisters, a noted New York writer and critic, eighty-year-old Jenny has flown to Miami Beach to help her flamboyant sister Flora (the Sandra Bernhardt of the senior set) deal with their ailing older siblings. Eva, ninety-five, is still elegant and articulate: "They come if it's convenient," she ventures between wine toasts to her continuing years. Naomi is ever a beauty at ninety--and as vain as they come: "He's crazy about me, but I just brush him off." Despite their fragile bodies, they are women to be reckoned with--and Jenny and Flora have their hands full. As they strive to keep their sisters comfortable and cared for, an explosive history of sibling rivalry is reignited--one that illuminates each of their long lives, the tender joys and sorrows, and the bittersweet ache for life, especially in its twilight years. . . . Review:"[A] quietly affecting portrait . . . Each of the Witkovsky sisters is clearly a formidable woman." -Los Angeles Times Review:"MOVING . . . Helen Yglesias enters a world underexplored in recent fiction . . . women living alone into their 80s and 90s." -The New York Times Book Review Review:"FIERCE, HOPEFUL . . . Yglesias's piercing insight into intractable family dynamics is lightened by a wicked sense of humor." -Newsday Synopsis:The youngest of four sisters, 80-year-old Jenny has flown to Miami Beach to help her flamboyant sister Flora tend to their ailing older siblings: Eva, still elegant at 95, but fading away; and the tart-tongued Naomi, 90 and battling cancer. Synopsis:The youngest of four sisters, eighty-year-old Jenny has flown to Miami Beach to help her flamboyant sister Flora tend to their ailing older siblings: Eva, still elegant at ninety-five, but fading away; and the tart-tongued, ever beautiful Naomi, ninety and battling the big C. While Jenny and Flora care for their sisters, an explosive history of sibling rivalry is reignited — illuminating each of their long lives. An engaging, unflinchingly honest portrait of sisters in their twilight years, The Girls is a brilliantly comic and bittersweet tale of family and the human spirit. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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