Brooke Lea Foster is an award-winning author and journalist who has worked as a writer and editor at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Huffington Post, and the Washingtonian magazine.
Her novels include Summer Darlings, On Gin Lane, All the Summers in Between, and Our Last Vineyard Summer.
At Oprah Daily Foster tagged seven favorite novels about sisters that capture the complexity — and joy — of the sibling bond. One title on the list:
Saints for All Occasions, by J. Courtney SullivanRead about the other entries on the list.
In the 1950s, Nora and Theresa immigrated from Ireland to Boston. At twenty-one and seventeen, the sisters are eager to plan their shared futuretogether—but an unplanned pregnancy leads the sibling pair to an impossible choice and, ultimately, into a decades-long estrangement. The novel picks up fifty years later when a death in the family forces Nora and Theresa back together. Theresa, who has been living in isolation as a nun, and Nora, the matriarch of her large Catholic family, must finally reckon with their shared decision and their diverging paths. A heartbreaking portrait of two sisters whose long-ago decisions reverberate through a family, this novel captures the way that sisters will always try to protect each other, at any age and despite any conflict.
--Marshal Zeringue
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