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The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

What is your favorite sister relationship portrayed in a book?  My old-time favorite was the sisters in Little Women.  Recently it was the sisters in The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth.  I love sister stories so I was excited for False Witness by Karin Slaughter.  I’ve read a few of her books but this one felt different.  I loved Leigh and Callie with their complicated sister relationship.  Callie is a drug addict employed part-time at a vet surgery.  She works there so she can get drugs.  Leigh is a criminal defense attorney.  While Leigh’s work is inundated with face masks or hand sanitizer, it’s as if they don’t exist in Callie’s.  Yet Callie is still suffering the after-effects of The virus.  There’s a constant internal dialogue going on because their past has come back to haunt them.  Callie was brutally raped and beaten by a monster named Buddy.  The times the scene is repeated in the book feels like hundreds....