Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir, (Paperback)

from huladancer

This compelling memoir is like a love letter to a sister who died too young, in a suspicious car accident. I couldn't put it down. Heart-rending, beautifully written.

from akblanchard

As the daughters of a wealthy timber merchant, author Sheila Kohler and her sister Maxine grow up as the most privileged of the privileged in apartheid-era South Africa. They are expected to make suitable matches and be perfect wives to successful men. But as adults the sisters share a terrible s...

from AlisonY

I've heard of Sheila Kohler but haven't read any of her fictional work yet. Whilst it probably would have been interesting to have had that context (she talks in this memoir about how she has weaved her family stories into her fictional work), this book works perfectly well on its own without any...

from Chrisethier

Late last year, I joined My Book Box, a subscription box service that send you two books each month along with a couple other things (book marks, tea, soap, butterbeer candle, a poster). I signed up for the Mystery and Non-Fiction selections. The mystery selections have been good. Not outstanding...

from eachurch

Once We Were Sisters is a terrific book.  Kohler is an excellent writer and in this moving and insightful book, she raises all sorts of interesting questions about why we stay in situations that aren't healthy for us, and how we cope or become acclimatized to things that are going on around us.  ...