Half-Life of a Stolen Sister by Rachel Cantor

Reimagines the lives of the Brontë siblings—Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and brother Branwell—from their precocious childhoods, to the writing of their great novels, to their early deaths.

How did sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne write literary landmarks Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey? What in their lives and circumstances, in the choices they made, and in their close but complex relationships with one another made such greatness possible? In her new novel, Rachel Cantor melds biographical fact with unruly invention to illuminate the siblings’ genius, their bonds of love and duty, periods of furious creativity, and the ongoing tolls of illness, isolation, and loss.

REVIEWS

“Cantor is one of the finest experimental novelists working today . . . An ingenious take on a clan whose personal relationships were as much an invention as their books.”—Bethanne Patrick, CultureWag

“Inventive . . . This novel fuses fact with fiction, creating a beautiful mosaic of the Brontës’ lives and a love letter to their literature.”—BookBub

“For a novelist to engage in literary experimentation requires initial boldness and enduring resolve. Rachel Cantor succeeds with energy and empathy in “Half-Life of a Stolen Sister,” in which familial eccentricity abounds, sorrow pervades and time wobbles . . . [An] inspired and singular triumph.”—The Free Lance-Star

PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 978-1641294645
Pages: 384