Spanning two decades, Shred Sisters is an intimate and bittersweet story exploring the fierce complexities of sisterhood, mental health, loss and love. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight, but when her stunning confidence morphs into something erratic and unpredictable, she becomes a hurricane leaving people wrecked in her wake. Younger sister Amy, cautious and studious to the core dreams of winning a Nobel Prize and unlocking the mysteries of the mind. Amy believes in facts, proof, and the empirical world. Except none of that can explain what’s happening to Ollie, whose physical beauty and charisma mask the bipolar disorder that will shatter Amy’s carefully constructed world. As Amy comes of age and seeks to find her place—first in academics, then New York publishing, and through a series of troubled relationships—every step brings collisions with Ollie, who slips in and out of the Shred family without warning. For all that upends and unsettles these sisters, an inextricable bond always draws them back.
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The Bridge Ladies
Celebrated author Betsy Lerner spends two years attending her mother’s weekly Bridge Club in New Haven, CT—which has met on Mondays for fifty years—and discovers the inner lives of five women from another generation in this warm and insightful look at cross-generational divides and mother-daughter relationships that reveals a bit about Bridge and a lot about life.