The Wrong Sister

by Caroline Leavitt

New York Times best-selling author Caroline Leavitt explores family ties that bind-and garrote-in two haunting stories.

56 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 20, 2014

About the author

Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Beautiful World, Is This Tomorrow, With or Without You, Pictures of You (Algonquin Books), which. Pictures of You was on the Best Books of the Year lists from the San Francisco Chronicle, The Providence Journal, Bookmarks and Kirkus Reviews. It was also a Costco Pennie's Pick. Is This Tomorrow was long listed for the Main Readers Prize, a WNBA Reading group Choice, A San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick/Editor's Choice, a Jewish Book Club Pic and the winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award.

Her 13th novel DAYS OF WONDER will be published by Algonquin/Hatchette in the spring of 2024.

The winner of a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant, a second prize winner in Goldenberg Fiction Prize, A Sundance Screenwriting Lab Finalist, a Nickelodeon Screenwriting Fellowship Finalist and a National Magazine Award Nominee, Leavitt is a senior writing instructor at UCLA and Stanford online and a freelance manuscript consultant. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Psychology Today, Salon,More, and more.
She has been featured on The Today Show and profiled in the New York Times.

You can reach her through www.carolineleavitt.com. On twitter @leavittnovelist. On Instagram @carolineleavitt and FB https://www.facebook.com/carolineleav... @carowriter99

Reviews

[Marti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Two short stories about young women, families and relationships.

I adore this author!

[Susan Swiderski · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book contains two novellas, each populated with richly-drawn characters caught within their sometimes stifling webs of family ties.

The writing is top-notch, the characters and their situations ring poignantly true, and the dialogue sparkles. This book served as my very fast-reading introduction to this author, and now I'm looking forward to sinking my teeth into some of her lengthier endeavors.

Try it. I bet it whets your appetite for more, too.

[Laura McHale Holland · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Wrong Sister: Stories by Caroline Leavitt is an ebook consisting of two short stories. Nothing connects the stories except their author. And what a fine author she is. Her characters are complicated and uniquely flawed in a way that makes them intriguing. I felt like I was drawn deep inside the families at the center of each story. A young man enters the lives of two sisters in the first story, The Wrong Sister, and the drama unfolds seamlessly to a surprising conclusion. The second story, The Last Vacation, which explores a daughter’s relationships with her parents, also unfolds seamlessly to a surprising conclusion, one that I found especially poignant. The characters I met on these pages seem like real folks whose paths just haven’t happened to cross with mine.

[R.L. Maizes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved these stories of family dynamics, and the turns the stories take. The Shebooks format allows us to read stories that might not otherwise be accessible absent a full collection. The stories have only whet my appetite for more of Leavitt’s work.