Sisterland - Curtis Sittenfeld

Written by Curtis Sittenfeld
Read by Rebecca Lowman
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Books on Tape
Release date: June 25, 2013
Duration: 14:59:32

From an early age, Kate and her identical twin sister, Violet, knew that they were unlike everyone else. Kate and Vi were born with peculiar “senses”—innate psychic abilities concerning future events and other people’s secrets. Though Vi embraced her visions, Kate did her best to hide them.

Now, years later, their different paths have led them both back to their hometown of St. Louis. Vi has pursued an eccentric career as a psychic medium, while Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children. But when a minor earthquake hits in the middle of the night, the normal life Kate has always wished for begins to shift. After Vi goes on television to share a premonition that another, more devastating earthquake will soon hit the St. Louis area, Kate is mortified. Equally troubling, however, is her fear that Vi may be right. As the date of the predicted earthquake quickly approaches, Kate is forced to reconcile her fraught relationship with her sister and to face truths about herself she’s long tried to deny.

“Although Kate and Violet are identical twins, they have reacted differently to their inborn sensitivity to psychic phenomena: Kate suppresses her talents, but Vi makes her living by conducting readings for clients. Narrator Rebecca Lowman keeps the personalities of the twins distinct, matching the emotional tenor of her performance to fit Kate’s conventionality as well as Vi’s looser, hippie-like temperament. Lowman’s rock-solid interpretations carry over to the secondary characters, who range from small children to old men. When the twins sense an impending cataclysmic earthquake, Vi contacts the media, exposing them both to the public eye and forever changing their personal relationships. Lowman stays tuned in to the tempo of the story, carefully building tension as the day of disaster approaches.”— Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award