My Sister's Continent
Gina Frangello
Release Date: March 26, 2013
eBook Price: $7.99
DESCRIPTION
My Sister's Continent is a contemporary retelling of Freud's infamous "Dora" case study, following a loosely parallel plot and containing similarly controversial sexual themes and layers of possibilities. Kirby is a young woman attempting to come to terms with a "failed" bout of therapy while concurrently trying to decipher the truth about her identical twin, Kendra's, life. When she is sent a skewed case study of herself by her former psychiatrist, she decides to respond by using Kendra's journals to reconstruct her final months with her sister and her brief time in therapy, finally creating her own version of the truth.
PRAISE
"Frangello is uncanny and mesmerizing in this smart, suspenseful psychosexual drama as she choreographs traumatic, possibly criminal, family dynamics, and delves fearlessly into questions of identity, abuse, power, trust, trespass, and delusion." —Booklist
"A Freudian tale of a family's twisted past… weaving complex issues of sexuality, AIDS and eating disorders." —Chicago Magazine
"A refreshing rebuttal to the canard that feminism is humorless, and the deep pun in the title is priceless." —Chicago Tribune
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gina Frangello is the fiction editor of The Nervous Breakdown. She is the author of the collection Slut Lullabies and the novel My Sister's Continent. She was the longtime Editor of the literary magazine Other Voices, and co-founded its book imprint, Other Voices Books, where she is now the Executive Editor of the Chicago office. Her short stories have been published in many lit mags and anthologies, including A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection, Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly, Swink, and Clackamas Literary Review. She guest edited the anthology Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters and teaches creative writing at Columbia College Chicago and Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies. Gina lives in Chicago and can be found online at Facebook, www.ginafrangello.com, and the Other Voices Books' website, www.ovbooks.org. She has twin daughters, a wild preschooler son, and never sleeps.