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The Bird sisters a novel

As elderly women, sisters Twiss and Milly live alone in the house where they grew up in Spring Green, Wis. They spend their days tending to injured birds and roaming their land, lost in memories. For Milly, there is the constant reminder of what could have been. Twiss spent her childhood happily tra...

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Main Author: Rasmussen, Rebecca.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Crown Publishers, c2011.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Sisters > Fiction.
Single women > Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age > Fiction.
Wisconsin > Fiction.
Domestic fiction > Wisconsin.
Summary: As elderly women, sisters Twiss and Milly live alone in the house where they grew up in Spring Green, Wis. They spend their days tending to injured birds and roaming their land, lost in memories. For Milly, there is the constant reminder of what could have been. Twiss spent her childhood happily trailing behind their golf-pro father, but Milly dreamed about a family and children that never happened. There was hope for a young Milly, until an accident strips their father of his golfing abilities and sets in motion a series of events that rips apart the already unstable family.
Physical Description: 290 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780307717962
0307717968
Author Notes: REBECCA RASMUSSEN teaches creative writing and literature at Fontbonne University. Her stories have appeared in Triquarterly magazine and the Mid-American Review . She was a finalist in both Narrative magazine's 30 Below Contest for writers under the age of thirty and in Glimmer Train 's Family Matters Contest. She lives with her husband and daughter in St. Louis.  This is her first novel.
 
Visit her at TheBirdSisters.com.

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