Bear

give me all the books about sisters. except the ones that are really about forming a psychosexual relationship with a bear, i guess. probably even when i'm 85 years old and, like, baking cookies and reading 24/7 like a nerdy keebler elf, my primary identifier will be eldest sister. so i was destined to......more

I really enjoyed this story of two adult sisters living on the beautiful island of San Juan, Washington.. the island is beautiful but their house is rundown and they have so much debt. Their house is was their grandmothers and the sisters Elena and Sam were raised there as was their mother. Their moth......more

When I was a child, I wished that one day I’d be gifted a sister. This longing had me searching for a magical solution, and I was always just a sister away from my dreams-come-true. I’m a voracious reader, and BEAR registered high on my wish list, a story of two sisters, a year apart in age, who thi......more

In 2019, Julia Phillips published a celebrated novel called “Disappearing Earth,” set on a remote Russian peninsula called Kamchatka. It’s not a place many Western readers were likely to have heard of before. Indeed, a travel story in The Washington Post noted, “You come to Kamchatka for two reasons:......more

This sister story takes place post Covid pandemic on the San Juan islands near Seattle. Elena and Sam are in their 20’s and grew up in the same house they are living in now. Their mother is terminally ill and they each work low paying jobs as well as take care of her. Sam works concession on the fer......more