The Sister Knot, my novel-in-progress, progresses today with the help of coffee sipped from my new progressive mug. The novel, about a fraught but resilient female friendship that endures despite the damage of childhood trauma, is told from the alternating perspectives of Liane and Frima, World War Two orphans who survive on Berlin’s streets through cunning, theft, and prostitution. Brought to the United States by a Jewish refugee agency, their lives soon diverge when Frima is adopted and Liane is sent to a group home. The novel follows their seesawing relationship through school and work, marriage and motherhood, incarceration and death. As Liane says, “how people turn out is not always the way you’d predict.” Read about my published books in NOVELS.
