Invisible Sisters: A Memoir

Invisible Sisters is Jessica Handler’s powerful tale of coming of age as the daughter of progressive Jewish parents who moved to Atlanta to participate in the social-justice movement of the 1960s, the healthy sister living in the shadow of her siblings’ illnesses, a daughter in a family torn apart by impossible circumstances, and as a young woman struggling to redefine herself after her sisters’ deaths.

Handler’s baby sister had been born with Kostmann’s Syndrome—a congenital blood disorder so rare that it appears in one in every two million births—and she and her family grew accustomed to the constantly shifting demands of illness. But when her younger sister was diagnosed with leukemia at age six, Jessica’s world, and her family, began to unravel. By the age of nine, Jessica Handler had begun to introduce herself as the “well sibling” and to consider the very real possibility that one day, she would be the only one left.

Invisible Sisters is the award-winning memoir of the unforgettable journey that she and her family faced.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

off the subject. It's the pictures that got small...

After watching (again) Whatever Happened to Baby Jane on TCM and realizing that yes it is way scarier than any slasher fest (not my thing anyway) M. and I came up with a Vintage Hollywood dream triple feature.

Day of The Locust (euw, Donald Sutherland losing it and stomping vile Adore to death) Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (rat under a serving dome, anyone?) and Sunset Boulevard (poor bastard, he always wanted a pool.)

This is why I moved to Los Angeles in the first place. I was taken in by the dark underbelly of these films. And I really, really wanted to see Angel's Flight, but the original red funicular cars were gone by the 1980s.

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