Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Seven titles about long-lost sisters

Morgan Dick is a writer from Calgary, Canada. Her short fiction has appeared in Grain, Geist, CAROUSEL, Cloud Lake Literary, The Prairie Journal, Vagabond City Lit, and The Humber Literary Review.

Her debut novel, Favorite Daughter, draws from her time working in the mental health field.

At Electric Lit Dick tagged "seven books that show the many ways a 'long-lost' sister can be found." One title on the list:
We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky by Emma Hooper

An immersive work of historical fiction, Emma Hooper’s third novel follows five young girls growing up in a small Portuguese fishing village at the edge of the Roman Empire. Though raised in different households, the girls are actually sisters, and as they grow up picking lemons together in the village orchards, sharing gossip and whispering secrets, they develop a fierce bond. When the girls are abducted and brought to the home of the local commander, they must part ways. Will their connection persist despite the separation?
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue