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THE SINGER SISTERS
A stunning debut novel that examines ambition, family, and feminism through the women of a folk-rock dynasty.
It's 1996, and alt-rocker Emma Cantor is on tour, with her sights trained on a record deal. Emma's got no lack of inspiration for her confessional songs, chief among them her mother Judie, a 1960s folk legend who is bitterly disappointed by Emma's choice to skip college. Emma is baffled by Judie's coldness, and is deeply shaken when she learns a long-kept secret: When Judie was only eighteen, before she was part of a beloved folk duo with her sister Sylvia, before she abandoned her music career to raise children, she spent the summer in Greenwich Village and became pregnant with a baby, Rose, whom she gave up for adoption. It was in the wake of that trauma that Judie and Sylvia formed the Singer Sisters and made the music that secured their legacy.
When Emma meets Rose and learns about her mother's past, the story inspires her to new heights as a performer. But it also propels her to commit a musical betrayal that further fractures her relationship with Judie. Increasingly famous, but fragile and isolated, Emma grapples with this question: why did Judie give up one daughter for music, and then give up music for her other daughter?
Inspired by the lives and music of beloved singer-songwriters including Joni Mitchell, the McGarrigle/Wainwright family, and Alanis Morrissette, the novel moves between 60s folk clubs and 90s music festivals, chronicling the ups and downs of stardom while asking what women artists must sacrifice for success. THE SINGER SISTERS is a captivating, funny, and moving debut, perfect for readers who loved Daisy Jones and the Six, The Interestings, and The Latecomer.
For more than a decade, Sarah Seltzer has been a feminist journalist and cultural critic. Her lively writing for publications including The New York Times, TIME, Jezebel, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and many other places has earned her an online followingand shaped the discourse on subjects ranging from Hollywood casting, to abortion rights, to the death of department store shopping. Sarah received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, wrote a creative thesis as an undergrad at Harvard, and has had fiction published in The Normal School, Joyland, and elsewhere. Currently, she's the Executive Editor at Lilith Magazine.
When Emma meets Rose and learns about her mother's past, the story inspires her to new heights as a performer. But it also propels her to commit a musical betrayal that further fractures her relationship with Judie. Increasingly famous, but fragile and isolated, Emma grapples with this question: why did Judie give up one daughter for music, and then give up music for her other daughter?
Inspired by the lives and music of beloved singer-songwriters including Joni Mitchell, the McGarrigle/Wainwright family, and Alanis Morrissette, the novel moves between 60s folk clubs and 90s music festivals, chronicling the ups and downs of stardom while asking what women artists must sacrifice for success. THE SINGER SISTERS is a captivating, funny, and moving debut, perfect for readers who loved Daisy Jones and the Six, The Interestings, and The Latecomer.
For more than a decade, Sarah Seltzer has been a feminist journalist and cultural critic. Her lively writing for publications including The New York Times, TIME, Jezebel, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and many other places has earned her an online followingand shaped the discourse on subjects ranging from Hollywood casting, to abortion rights, to the death of department store shopping. Sarah received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, wrote a creative thesis as an undergrad at Harvard, and has had fiction published in The Normal School, Joyland, and elsewhere. Currently, she's the Executive Editor at Lilith Magazine.
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