Half-Life of a Stolen Sister - Paperback

by Rachel Cantor (Author)

"How did sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne write literary landmarks Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey? What in their lives and circumstances, in the choices they made, and in their close but complex relationships with one another made such greatness possible? In her new novel, Rachel Cantor melds biographical fact with unruly invention to illuminate their genius, their bonds of love and duty, periods of furious creativity, and the ongoing tolls of illness, isolation, and loss. As it tells the story of the Brontèes, Half-Life of a Stolen Sister itself perpetually transforms and renews its own style and methods, sometimes hewing close to the facts of the Brontèe lives as we know them (or think we know them), and at others radically reimagining the siblings, moving them into new time periods and possibilities"--

Author Biography

Rachel Cantor is the author of the novels Half-Life of a Stolen Sister, Good on Paper, and A Highly Unlikely Scenario. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review, One Story, Ninth Letter, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and elsewhere, and she has written about fiction for National Public Radio, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.