Sisters We Were - Paperback

by Wendy Willis Baldwin (Author)

The weight of their family secrets could not have shaped Pearl and Ruby Crenshaw any differently. Ruby's a runner, living in Dallas and only reluctantly talking to their mother, Birdie, when she calls from prison. Pearl has never left Austin, still living in her mother's fixer-upper, still struggling to manage the extra pounds that keep creeping on. But Pearl has found herself facing a line in the sand: her weight is threatening to kill her. She's hundreds of pounds beyond the point where she can celebrate her curves or benefit from the body positivity movement, and unless she takes drastic action, the future looks more dire than she'd like. She knows she's not going to get any help from Ruby, who rarely comes home and who is frustrated to her core by Pearl's disheveled life. But when Ruby's buried rage explodes in a hilariously viral way, the mistake has life-altering consequences that throw the sisters back into living under the same roof as they try to put back together the pieces of their lives. Funny, cinematic and bursting with heart, this is a story of hope and redemption that celebrates the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.