The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown is about family, sisters and life. When the Andreas sisters (the weird sisters) come home to be with their mother who is battling breast cancer, they find that they don’t really know how to relate to each other. These girls have almost nothing in common — except for their names. Their father, a professor of Shakespeare, named each of them after Bard’s heroines: Rose, Bianca and Cordelia.
The story unfolds from varying viewpoints of each of the sisters. You come to find that Rose is the responsible one. She’s engaged to be married, but struggles with her fiance living in Europe. Bianca (Bean), finds herself in heaps of debt and fired from her job — because she stole money from her employer. While Cordelia (Cordy) is somewhat of a free spirit, and low and behold she’s pregnant.
If you would like to join the BlogHer Book Club conversation about The Weird Sisters you can do so here. You don’t need to have read the book in order to participate. The moderator does an excellent job of picking apart bigger picture questions of the book and discussing how it relates to her our lives.
