inspiration for her writing from the natural world and the intricacies of human relationships.When she's not writing, she's usually cooking, hiking, or trying to keep up with her ever-growing TBR list.
Sutton's new novel is Running Out of Air.
[Q&A with Lilli Sutton]
At Electric Lit Sutton tagged "nine books [that] ask their own questions about sisterhood, depict the many kinds of conflict that arise between siblings, and reflect the compassion extended by family, even in extreme circumstances." One title on the list:
Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeRead about the other entries on the list at Electric Lit.
Miranda and Lucia, the Chinese-American sisters at the heart of Everything Here is Beautiful, have strikingly different personalities. Miranda is older andmore controlled; Lucia is wild and headstrong, brilliant at her best but affected by chronic mental illness. Miranda longs to help her younger sister, but Lucia resists treatment, insisting that she isn’t sick; this is simply her reality. The question of family loyalty arises when Miranda moves to Switzerland with her husband, and Lucia to Ecuador, putting both physical and emotional distance between them. How much must Miranda sacrifice to protect Lucia?
Covering many years and told through alternating perspectives, including both sisters and Lucia’s partners, Mira T. Lee draws a fully-realized portrait of the sweeping effects of mental illness, both on the afflicted person and their loved ones.
Everything Here is Beautiful is among Amy Feltman's six top books featuring unconventional families, Lisa Braxton's seven novels that show the range and depth of gentrification fiction, Lynda Cohen Loigman's eight compelling books of sisterly friction.
My Book, The Movie: Everything Here Is Beautiful.
--Marshal Zeringue
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