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'By turns funny, brave and wise, SISTERS & LOVERS touched my heart.' - Jo-Ann Mapson, author of HANK & CHLOE. 'Destined to become a keeper.' - LIBRARY JOURNAL On Publishers Weekly Bestseller List for four weeks. Beverly, Charmaine, and Evelyn are three middle-class African American sisters all living in Washington D.C., but in very different worlds. They have one thing in common though: they are reaching their personal breaking points. Beverly is successful, reluctantly single, and perennially disappointed. Evelyn is educated and ambitious, with a husband and two great kids, but the secure world she has built for herself is possibly about to crumble. And Charmaine struggles to support her son as well as her useless husband, all the while wondering what either of her sisters has to complain about.
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K AND FUNNY TALE about the everyday lives of three Black women."
--Essence
Beverly, Charmaine, and Evelyn are three sisters living in the same Maryland town outside Washington, D.C., each wishing her life were just a little different. Beverly is twenty-nine and single. She's a successful magazine editor who would love to be in love. The problem is, no man can meet her high standards. Charmaine longs to finish her degree, but meanwhile, she has to juggle a thankless job, a beautiful child, and an irresponsible husband she doesn't quite have the nerve to leave. Evelyn seems to have it made. She has a successful psychology practice and her husband is a partner in a prestigious law firm. But there's trouble in paradise, and Evelyn refuses to face the facts.
Warm and bittersweet, believable and real, SISTERS & LOVERS is a novel of family and love, heartache and hope, and above all, the triumph of sisterhood.
"RIVETING . . . LIVELY . . . HILARIOUS . . . Three sisters wh
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--Essence
Beverly, Charmaine, and Evelyn are three sisters living in the same Maryland town outside Washington, D.C., each wishing her life were just a little different. Beverly is twenty-nine and single. She's a successful magazine editor who would love to be in love. The problem is, no man can meet her high standards. Charmaine longs to finish her degree, but meanwhile, she has to juggle a thankless job, a beautiful child, and an irresponsible husband she doesn't quite have the nerve to leave. Evelyn seems to have it made. She has a successful psychology practice and her husband is a partner in a prestigious law firm. But there's trouble in paradise, and Evelyn refuses to face the facts.
Warm and bittersweet, believable and real, SISTERS & LOVERS is a novel of family and love, heartache and hope, and above all, the triumph of sisterhood.
"RIVETING . . . LIVELY . . . HILARIOUS . . . Three sisters wh
Connie Briscoe lives in Falls Church, Virginia. She is a descendant of the slaves on the Madison family plantation.
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- PublisherUlverscroft Large Print Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0708958052
- ISBN 13 9780708958056
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages437
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