The Lady Photographer's Sister - Softcover

Hayertz, Leslie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 099977185X ISBN 13: 9780999771853

Publisher: Sassy Crow, 2025

Synopsis

In 1953, a telegram impels Soli to rush to the Yucatán to be with her sister, Meche, breaching a separation of 2500 miles and forty years.

As girls, the sisters grow up in a close-knit family on a remote farm in the Yucatán. But the death of their mother strains their relationship. Soli takes on the care of their baby brother, sidelining her attachment to Meche, and Meche increasingly chafes under her older sister’s authority. It’s the eve of the Mexican Revolution and although the country is in turmoil, their father has other concerns—he’s fallen in love with Lulu.

Lulu runs a photography studio with her sister, Ruby, in the city of Campeche. Soli and Meche, now teenagers, are thrust into uneasy contact with them. They struggle to cope, and in 1910 the outbreak of war pulls the sisters apart—Soli travels with Lulu to the United States, and Meche stays behind with Ruby in Campeche.

With a war, a border and thousands of miles lying between the sisters, their lives unfold in unexpected ways. The novel tells their story in reverse, unraveling their journeys, peeling back the intricate layers of their relationships and probing the tangled sisterly bonds of rivalry, loyalty, resentment and love.

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About the Author

Leslie Hayertz was born in Washington State. She earned a BA ed. at Central Washington University and an MA in Spanish at Middlebury College. A northwesterner by birth and inclination, she lives near the confluence of the Tualatin and Willamette Rivers in Oregon. She is the author of fiction and short plays and teaches Spanish in the Portland Metro Area.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sassy Crow
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 099977185X
• ISBN 13: 9780999771853
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 451