Literary, Dementia, Empathy, Mothers and daughters, Sisters 

Thunderstorms are rolling across the summer sky. Every time one breaks, Rose Bowan loses consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams about being in another woman's body. Is Rose merely dreaming? Or is she, in fact, inhabiting a stranger? Disturbed yet entranced, she sets out to discover what is happening to her, leaving the cocoon of her family's small repertory cinema for the larger, upended world of someone wildly different from herself. Meanwhile her mother is in the early stages of dementia, and has begun to speak for the first time in decades about another haunting presence: Rose's younger sister. In Little Sister, one woman fights to help someone she has never met, and to come to terms with a death for which she always felt responsible. With the elegant prose and groundbreaking imagination that have earned her international acclaim, Barbara Gowdy explores the astonishing power of empathy, the question of where we end and others begin, and the fierce bonds of motherhood and sisterhood. 

Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Gowdy, Barbara.
Little sister.
Portland, OR : Tin House Books, [2017]
(DLC) 2017002814
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Gowdy
ISBN: 9781941040607 1941040608
OCLC Number: 960280374
Description: 299 pages ; 21 cm
Responsibility: Barbara Gowdy.