Once We Were Sisters

A Memoir

Author  Sheila Kohler
Once We Were Sisters

ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE’S BEST NEW BOOKS

“A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly.” —The BBC

“An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss.” —People

When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg.  Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood—one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother.

In her signature spare and incisive prose, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at…

$22.00
January 17, 2017
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