Sister Stories: Taking the Journey Together

by Brenda Peterson

Uses insights from psychology, mythology, and anthropology, to look at sisters--both biological and metaphorical--and examines the intimacy, camaraderie, and love shared by women

338 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Brenda Peterson is the author of over 20 books, including the recently released murder mystery, Stiletto. Her first memoir Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals, chosen as a “Best Spiritual Book of 2001,” to three novels, one of which, Duck and Cover, was chosen by New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year. Her second memoir, a dark comedy of family and faith, is I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth; it was selected by The Christian Science Monitor among the Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Books and chosen by independent bookstores as an Indie Next and a Great Read.
Her non-fiction has appeared in numerous national newspapers, journals, and magazines, including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Reader’s Digest, Christian Science Monitor, O: The Oprah Magazine, and Utne Reader. Oprah.com featured her Your Life is a Book: How to Craft and Publish Your Memoir. Her new kid’s are Wild Orca and Lobo: A Wolf Family Returns Home.

Reviews

[Betty · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book you sit with, allow it to divulge its wisdom and ponder: oh, what it means to be a girl/woman from the start of time, beyond what I could comprehend.
As I said, sit with the knowledge …others have walked this path. Repair, rebirth, reunion, rejuvenation of humanity, not just sisterhood.

[Greta · Rating 3 out of 5]

All in all this was a bit of a mundane read. But I have to give it some stars because there are one or two parts I've reflected back on time and time again.