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Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir

Sheila Kohler

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Mar 19, 2017 Terri rated it really liked it

Shelves: library-borrowed, sisters-in-history, african-culture, memoir-childhood

A painful yet loving memoir written by South African writer Sheila Kohler about the loss of her beloved older sister. Sheila and her sister Maxine were more than just sisters, they were best friends and both had survived a strange but privileged childhood. Their narcissistic mother was emotionally unavailable and their father was largely absent so they just had each other. Both sisters were beautiful and bright but were brought up to marry young, preferably to a wealthy man, and have lots of ba ...more

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