About the Carleton Sisters
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About the Carleton Sisters

A Novel

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

About the Carleton Sisters

A Novel

About this book

A Las Vegas showgirl, a diner waitress, and a heartbroken alcoholic—three sisters—are called into an obligatory reunion in California’s Central Valley in the late 1990s as a prelude to their mother’s impending death.

Inside Diego’s Diner on Highway 99, Lorraine, the eldest of the sisters, attempts to convert the truckers and regional farmers to her religious beliefs while managing the counters and booths. Becky, the youngest, lurches into this scene after a night’s drunken romp. Meanwhile, middle sister Julie is en route on a bus from Las Vegas, where she’s just ended a long career as a Riviera showgirl. Overshadowing the longstanding tensions between the three women is the unexplained disappearance of the sisters’ long-absent father from their lives.

Julie is reluctant to return to River’s End, but she makes a valiant attempt to jump-start her life again once she gets there, even as she confronts the loss of the beauty she’s long used to mask her insecurities and failed relationships. Meanwhile, Becky struggles to stay sober and out of jail—and Lorraine throws herself into cheating her sisters out of their inheritance.

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2023
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9781647424411
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Summer 1954
  6. Chapter One. June 1999: Lorraine
  7. Chapter Two. Becky
  8. Chapter Three. Julie
  9. Chapter Four. Lorraine
  10. Chapter Five. Becky
  11. Chapter Six. Lorraine
  12. Chapter Seven. Julie
  13. Chapter Eight. Lorraine
  14. Chapter Nine. Becky
  15. Chapter Ten. Julie
  16. Chapter Eleven. Becky
  17. Chapter Twelve. Julie
  18. Chapter Thirteen. Lorraine
  19. Chapter Fourteen. Julie
  20. Chapter Fifteen. Lorraine
  21. Chapter Sixteen. Julie
  22. Chapter Seventeen. Lorraine
  23. Chapter Eighteen. Becky
  24. Chapter Nineteen. Julie
  25. Chapter Twenty. Lorraine
  26. Chapter Twenty-One. Becky
  27. Chapter Twenty-Two. Julie
  28. Chapter Twenty-Three. Lorraine
  29. Chapter Twenty-Four. Julie
  30. Chapter Twenty-Five. Becky
  31. Chapter Twenty-Six. Lorraine
  32. Chapter Twenty-Seven. Thanksgiving 1999: Lorraine
  33. A Note from the Author
  34. Acknowledgments
  35. About the Author
  36. Selected Titles From She Writes Press

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