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Erin wants to escape Montana; Meghan wants to escape Earth's gravity.
November 2005 | Fiction
$12 Paperback
ISBN: 1-56947-405-2
Dram. rights: Cine/Lit
Trans., Canadian rights: Soho Press
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"This fiction debut delves into
a love-hate sibling relationship between a heroin addict and a good girl
bent on saving her sister. Their story answers the question of how to forgive
the people who hurt you most."
—Glamour |
"[Barbieri's] insights into family
dynamics are solid and true."
—San Francisco Chronicle |
"Reminiscent of Mona Simpson's novels, in the
way that it sneaks up on you with its message of strength as a payoff for
hardship.... A thoughtful and thought-provoking study of family afflictions."
—January |
"Powerful."
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Sometimes it's not easy to be a good sister. It's a relationship where closeness can be overwhelming, in which love is often mixed with jealousy and envy.
Erin Mulcahy has grown up in her older sister Meghan's shadow: not quite as pretty, smart, or dynamic. Just as Erin is on the verge of fulfilling her dream of going away to art school, Meghan, a single mother with a five-year-old daughter and an infant, roars back into their home town of Butte, Montana, in the midst of a summer snowstorm. Erin must put her plans on hold.
Meghan, still beautiful and magnetic, is addicted: to men, drugs, and danger. She is the world's "most frequent flier," taking her children, Erin, and their widowed mother along for a turbulent ride that is by turns darkly humorous and harrowing. Meghan promises once again to reform, but can she be believed? Or is it up to Erin and her mother to give the children the only safe haven they've ever known?
Heather Barbieri received a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Washington. She lives with her husband and three children in Seattle, Washington. She is the recipient of the Ian St. James International Short Fiction Award, the James W. Hall Fiction Prize and the Waller Literature Award. She has been awarded fellowships by the Seattle Arts Commission and Artist Trust Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship Program. Snow
in July is her first novel.
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