Fraught Relationship Between 'Sisters' Lies At The Heart Of Daisy Johnson's Latest
Johnson's chilly, uneasy novel follows two sisters in the wake of an unnamed "something" that happened. Critic Annalisa Quinn says it's slighter than Johnson's previous work, but genuinely surprising.
by Annalisa Quinn
Aug 26, 2020
2 minutes
"Does September make you do things you don't want to do?" a teacher asks July of her older sister in Daisy Johnson's chilly little sliver of a novel, Sisters. "And I said no no no no but underneath the no there was a maybe ..."
When the book opens, July, September, and their mother Sheela are living by the Yorkshire coast in a "rankled, bentouttashape,
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