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.

Sunday, September 30, 2012

So, you're a nonfiction writer in Charlotte NC and you have this manuscript ...

So, you're a nonfiction writer in Charlotte, NC and you have this manuscript that you really want to workshop....

What should you do? You should come to the Queens University of Charlotte Writers' Symposium , where you'll meet fascinating people and get to work with them, including me. I'm not fascinating, but the other folks are. I mean, really, y'all. Elissa Schappell? Fred Leebron? Don't miss out!

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