Sisters of the Road - Softcover

Wilson, Barbara

3.22

98 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853816132 ISBN 13: 9781853816130

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 1994

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Pam Nilsen is looking for teenage prostitute Trish Margolin and the murderer of Trish's best friend. Her search brings her into contact with the world of teenage prostitutes and runaways on the streets of Seattle and Portland. The author won the Crime Writers' Association Award in 1992.

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Barbara Wilson's Murder in the Collective announced the successful union of lesbian feminist politics and murder mysteries. Her new book, Sisters ofthe Road, brings more good news: for Wilson it is a marriage made in heaven. She has strengthened her writing, building on its energetic promise and now she delivers a complex and moving thriller. Pam Nilson, her reluctant sleuth, is struggling to maintain the collective which runs her family's printing business while her twin sister picks coffee beans in Nicaragua. She is also nursing a broken heart after her first woman lover has left town. Naturally her good Samaritan rescue of two young women introduces murder, prostitution, drug dealers, and incest into her already strained life. When one of the girls dies from a beating and the other disappears Pam scours the streets of Seattle and Portland to find her and seek some answers to how a 14-year-old becomes hardened by drugs and crime. The trail leads through scummy artist's lofts, shelters for homeless teens, and inevitably (and sadly) back to the family. It is Pam's capacity for caring about people that makes this novel so compelling. She is inexperienced in almost every aspect of her life: running a business, being gay, and routing out killers and child abusers. But her passionate commitment to people makes it impossible for her to give up on others or on herself. Wilson's forte is depicting this extraordinary quality without letting its possessor appear to be a plaster saint. She portrays exactly how good and evil evolve from the needs and impulses of ordinary people. -- From Independent Publisher

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