Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Sisters

"A New York Times Best Book of the Year So Far Editors' Choice Named a most anticipated book of summer by Vulture The Boston Globe One of the BBC's 10 Best Books of the Summer A Times (London) Best Book of the Year ""One gawps . . . at its breadth and ambition. [The Sisters is] a transnational tour de force."" -Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review ""One of this summer's most buzzed-about novels."" -Nilanjana Roy, Financial Times ""A classic story about sibling rivalry . . . One of the best novels I've ever read about the complexities of mixed heritage."" -Fredrik Backman, The New Yorker ""[The Sisters] generates every kind of heat . . . If you welcome this novel into your mind, it will warm and transform you."" -Tess Gunty, National Book Award-winning author of The Rabbit Hutch ""Astonishing . . . Every character-every sentence-is startlingly, indubitably alive."" -Katie Kitamura, author of Audition and Intimacies An addictively entertaining family saga by a National Book Award finalist. Meet the Mikkola sisters: Ina, Evelyn, and Anastasia. Their mother is a Tunisian carpet seller, their father a mysterious Swede who left them when they were young. Ina is tall, serious, a compulsive organizer. Evelyn is dreamy, magnetic, a smooth talker. And Anastasia is moody, chaotic, a shape-shifting presence, quick to anger. Ina meets her future husband when she's dragged to a New Year's rave by her sisters, only to suffer the ultimate betrayal. Evelyn drifts through life before embarking on a wild career as an actress. And Anastasia runs off to Tunisia, where she falls in love with a woman who, years later, will transform her life. Following the sisters from afar is Jonas, the son of a Swedish mother and a Tunisian father. Over the course of three decades, his life intersects with the sisters, from a chance encounter in Tunis to the scene of a fighter jet crash in Stockholm. When Evelyn disappears on a trip to New York, Jonas manages to track her down-and helps her to break the curse that has been looming over the Mikkolas for decades. In the process, a shocking revelation changes everything about who they think they are. Narrated in six parts, each spanning a period ranging from a year to a day to a single minute, Jonas Hassen Khemiri's The Sisters is a big, vivid family saga of the highest order-an addictively entertaining tour de force. " ...