{"product_id":"sisters-9780802127112","title":"Sisters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Tuck's prose is elegant.\" -- \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLily Tuck's critically-lauded, bestselling \u003ci\u003eI Married You for Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e was hailed by the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e as \"an artfully crafted still life of one couple's marriage.\" In her singular new novel \u003ci\u003eSisters\u003c\/i\u003e, Tuck gives a very different portrait of marital life, exposing the intricacies and scandals of a new marriage sprung from betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTuck's unnamed narrator lives with her new husband, his two teenagers, and the unbanishable presence of his first wife--known only as \u003ci\u003eshe\u003c\/i\u003e. Obsessed with her, our narrator moves through her days presided over by the all-too-real ghost of the first marriage, fantasizing about how the first wife lives her life. Will the narrator ever equal \u003ci\u003eshe\u003c\/i\u003e intellectually, or ever forget the betrayal that lies between them? And what of the secrets between her husband and \u003ci\u003eshe\u003c\/i\u003e, from which the narrator is excluded? The daring and precise build up to an eerily wonderful denouement is a triumph of subtlety and surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eSisters\u003c\/i\u003e, Lily Tuck delivers riveting psychological portrait of marriage, infidelity, and obsession; charting with elegance and insight love in all its phases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLily Tuck\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six novels: The Double Life of Liliane; I Married You for Happiness; Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, nominated for the PEN\/Faulkner Award; The News From Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award; the short story collections The House at Belle Fontaine and Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived; and the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Monthly Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51213030162706,"sku":"9780802127112","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8d47d8d9-e0c6-46a5-ba0d-534e410c2ba1.jpg?v=1745357200","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sisters-9780802127112","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}