Edited by Jan Freeman, Emily Wojcik, and Deborah Bull
Official release date: December 21, 2009. Advance copies will be available from Paris Press November 1, and from your local and online booksellers in mid-November.
This heartwarming and heart-wrenching collection of stories, memoirs, and poems celebrates the beautifully complex world of sisters. A relationship like no other, the unbreakable link between sisters can be at once sweet and loving, fierce and cruel. From childhood to old age, rivalry to devotion, hysterical laughter to tears of grief, the irrevocable bonds between sisters create a unique journey. Sisters is for anyone who knows sisters, wishes they had a sister, adores her own sister, or would, on occasion, like to trade her in.
| Joyce Armor | Margaret Atwood | Joan Baez |
| Claire Bateman | Simone de Beauvoir | Robin Becker |
| Jane Bowles | Gwendolyn Brooks | Lan Samantha Chang |
| Marilyn Chin | Catherine Chung | Lucille Clifton |
| Clare Coss | Edwidge Danticat | Sadie & Bessie Delany |
| Rita Dove | Delia Ephron | M.F.K. Fisher |
| Julia Glass | Barbara L. Greenberg | Jane Hirshfield |
| Cynthia Hogue | Beverly Jensen | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Ana Maria Jomolca | Mary Karr | Marie Luise Kaschnitz |
| Tsipi Keller | Barbara Kingsolver | Maxine Kumin |
| Jeanne M. Leiby | Audre Lorde | Grace Paley |
| Dorothy Parker | Martha Rhodes | Muriel Rukeyser |
| Myra Shapiro | Ali Smith | Misty Urban |
| Alice Walker | Wendy Wasserstein | C.D. Wright |
| Daisy Zamora |
Jan Freeman is the Director and Founder of Paris Press. She is the author of three books of poetry, Simon Says, Hyena, Autumn Sequence, and a new manuscript, Blue Structure. She lives in Ashfield, MA; her younger sisters live in Atlanta and New York City.
Emily Wojcik is the Assistant Editor of Paris Press. She is completing her doctorate in English at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches writing and American Literature. She lives in Northampton, MA; her younger sister lives in New York City.
Deborah Bull has spent her career in publishing, most recently as Director of Photosearch,Inc./Fair Street Productions (NYC), which produced illustrated books, including anthologies on a wide variety of subjects. She lives in New York City; her younger sister lives in Los Angeles.
Jane Lund created “Sisters Dresses,” the collage on the cover of SISTERS: AN ANTHOLOGY. She is an award-winning artist whose pastels and collages are shown at the Forum Gallery in NYC; her work has been exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the U.S. She lives in Ashfield, MA; her younger sister lives in Vermont.
Jane Lund has generously offered 100 signed and numbered prints of her collage, "Sisters Dresses" (28 1/2” x 23 1/2”) for donors who contribute $250 to Paris Press. Unlike the cover art, the original collage is set on a salmon background, as you can see below. Your contribution is $200 tax deductible.
To make a contribution and request a print, please send your check or money order to Paris Press, P.O. Box 487, Ashfield, MA 01330. To pay by credit card, phone the Paris Press office directly (413.628.0051) or go to the Orders & Donations page on our Website and click on the "Make Donations" button.
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