Month: November 2024

Famous Friends: Harold and Chester

In Bunnicula , the children’s novel by James and Deborah Howe, innocent Harold and scheming Chester are the perfect dog-and-cat detective team to battle the vampire rabbit, Bunnicula, who sucks the juice out of vegetables! Read The Sister Knot about two resilient women, orphaned in WW2, who defy fate to sustain a lifelong friendship. A compelling novel about the power of sisterhood. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

Harold the dog and Chester the cat battle the vampire bunny Bunnicula

Two resilient women, two separate journeys, one lasting friendship

Famous Friends: Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla

The 28-year-old Tesla work for the 37-year-old Edison’s Illuminating Company. After a year, they became rivals when Tesla left to start his own lighting company. Tesla promoted alternating current (AC) whereas Edison championed direct current (DC). Tesla won that battle. AC was more efficient and cheaper over longer distances than DC. Read The Sister Knot about two resilient women, orphaned in WW2, who defy fate to sustain a lifelong friendship. A compelling novel about the power of sisterhood. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

Edison and Tesla: Powerful friends turned electric rivals

Two resilient women, two separate journeys, one lasting friendship

More praise for the award-winning novel The Sister Knot

Readers continue to praise The Sister Knot, an award-winning novel about the lifelong power of sisterhood in the aftermath of wartime trauma.

  • “This book would just not let me put it down.”
  • “An engrossing, moving and well-crafted novel about resilience.”
  • “Ann Epstein depicts these complex women with empathy, warmth, and insight.”
  • A deep, complex emotional understanding of the binding power of wartime trauma.”
  • “Reading the final chapters had me in tears.”
  • “A brilliantly gifted writer.”
  • “Lines that ache in their beauty.”
  • “The persistence and struggles the women have in maintaining their sisterly connection fuel the narrative from beginning to end.”
  • “I’ve read books by this author before, and one of the things she does best is handle often deeply unsettling history, circumstances and consequences with gentleness and nuance, all in the service of displaying her characters’ growth and resilience.”

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The Sister Knot Reading at Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival, November 17 at 11:00 AM ET

Everyone is invited to a reading of The Sister Knot at the Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival: Local Author Event at the Ann Arbor Jewish Community Center (2935 Birch Hollow Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48108) on Sunday, November 17, 2024 from 11:00-1:00 Eastern Time. The event, including brunch, is FREE and OPEN TO ALL. Register for the in-person event so they know how much food to order. This annual event features a variety of authors and genres and attracts a lively audience. Hope to see you all there! Thanks for the support!

The Sister Knot: First Place Award in Literary Historical Fiction

Author Ann S. Epstein writes novel, stories, memoir, poems, and essays

Famous Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The women met in 1851 when Anthony traveled to an anti-slavery meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, where Stanton had organized the first national woman’s rights convention three years earlier. Amelia Bloomer introduced them on a street corner, sparking a friendship as co-leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Read The Sister Knot about two resilient women, orphaned in WW2, who defy fate to sustain a lifelong friendship. A compelling novel about the power of sisterhood. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

Anthony and Stanton: Two determined women, one powerful suffrage movement

Two resilient women, two separate journeys, one lasting friendship

Famous Friends: Scout Finch and Boo Radley

In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockinbgbird, the friendship between a spunky young girl and her reclusive neighbor is marked by indirect contact but constant mutual awareness. Boo watches out for Scout like a guardian angel and his courage alters their lives. Read The Sister Knot about two resilient women, orphaned in WW2, who defy fate to sustain a lifelong friendship. A compelling novel about the power of sisterhood. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

Scout and Boo: A memorable friendship between a spunky young girl and her reclusive neighbor

Two resilient women, two separate journeys, one lasting friendship