Description: The best-selling author of The Waters (a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick) returns with a tale of love, transgression, and the miraculous healing power of the holiday table.
Brief description: Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of seven works of fiction, including The Waters, a national bestseller, and American Salvage, finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she lives outside Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband and donkeys.
Review Quotes: Between the lines of this rollicking, haunted, humorous, aural, and choral Christmas Eve retelling of a family story grisly enough to make a reader squint, meanders one of the most accurate self-loathing-and-yet-somehow-determined-to-not-just-survive-but-thrive voices of a young woman battered by an abusive, patriarchal, tyrant than any I have ever heard. I relate to Sister so fully and deeply, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. A haunting and a healing, all at once.--Pam Houston, author of Animals Taught Me Everything