Brooke Lea Foster is an award-winning author and journalist who has worked as a writer and editor at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Huffington Post, and the Washingtonian magazine.
Her novels include Summer Darlings, On Gin Lane, All the Summers in Between, and Our Last Vineyard Summer.
At Oprah Daily Foster tagged seven favorite novels about sisters that capture the complexity — and joy — of the sibling bond. One title on the list:
Searching for Sylvie Lee, by Jean KwokRead about another entry on the list.
“Often there’s a dichotomy between the beautiful sister and the smart one, but in our family, both of those qualities belong to my sister.” It’s apowerful line spoken by younger sister, Amy, in a novel about her “perfect” older sister’s disappearance and her desperate search to find her. Sylvie is the pride of her family. She’s Ivy League educated, lives in Brooklyn Heights, and is married to a loving husband. But after visiting her ailing grandmother in the Netherlands, she vanishes. Amy, who has been living in Queens with their parents and hasn’t done much of anything with her life, must travel abroad to look for Sylvie, discovering eerie family secrets in her sister’s wake. Ultimately, the novel raises a painful question: What happens when both sisters think the other is the more beloved in a family? And at what point does that subtle competition erupt into something darker?
Searching for Sylvie Lee is among Leah Konen's seven top getaway thrillers, Andrea Bartz's seven top thrillers about vacations gone wrong, Jennifer Baker's twelve mysteries featuring BIPOC protagonists and Katherine St. John's eleven novels of vacations gone horribly wrong.
The Page 69 Test: Searching for Sylvie Lee.
--Marshal Zeringue
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