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Book Spotlight: A Gift for My Sister by Ann Pearlman & Giveaway

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Today I’m spotlighting a book that sounds wonderful and that is A Gift for My Sister by Ann Pearlman.  I first heard of this author with regard to her book The Christmas Cookie Club of which I heard nothing but good things.  I’m really looking forward to reading A Gift for My Sister and lucky for me I already have The Christmas Cookie Club on my eReader – now to just find the time to read them both!  Meanwhile I’m going to tell you what the book is about and offer up a great giveaway as well!

 

About A Gift for My Sister (from Ann’s website)

Ann Pearlman’s new novel, A Gift For My Sister, is a fast paced, riveting page turner that poses the larger questions of where did I come from, how did I become me, and how do we form a family. Set in a backdrop as vast as a continent, and diverse as plush beach condos, inner city Detroit, and exhilarating rap concerts, it’s a tale told by two fatherless daughters struggling with family curses, eccentric luck, and the complicated multiculturalism that is hallmark of our era.

Sky, obedient and cautious, has worked hard to build her dream life. In her ideal job as a lawyer and married to handsome Troy, they live with their three-year-old daughter, Rachel, in a house on the beach. Younger sister, Tara, rebellious and impetuous, has fallen in love with the irresistible Aaron, become pregnant in high school, and embarked on a rollercoaster life as a musician. But when tragedy besets Sky, her world is turned upside down. Amazingly, Tara and Aaron and their rap crew, instead of facing a future destined to be foolhardy and risky, are on the brink of fame. With this astonishing reversal of fortune, Tara offers to help Sky start over and move home. On the road trip tensions between the two sisters erupt, loyalties are tested and long hidden secrets revealed. The journey they embark on forces each woman to take a walk in the other’s shoes and examine what sisterhood, and family means to them.

Read an excerpt
Buy at: Amazon.com, B&N, iTunes, IndieBound, and Amazon.ca

 

About Ann Pearlman (from Ann’s website)

Ann Pearlman is a writer of both fiction, and non-fiction books and has been passionate about writing since eighth grade. Getting Free: Women and Psychotherapy was written with two colleagues and used as both a consciousness-raising book in the woman’s movement as well as college textbook. Keep the Home Fires Burning: How to Have an Affair With Your Spouse, garnered the attention of the Oprah Winfrey Show and many other TV talk shows. Her memoir, Infidelity, was nominated for National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, and made into a Lifetime movie by Lionsgate. Inside the Crips, with a foreword by Ice T, took readers into the life of a Crip gang member and the California Prison system. The Christmas Cookie Club became an international bestseller, spawning cookie exchanges and donations to charity. The Christmas Cookie Cookbook: All the Rules and Delicious Recipes to Start Your Own Holiday Cookie Club was written with her friend, Marybeth Bayer, who is a terrific baker as well as the hostess of the cookie exchange Ann attends. A Gift for My Sister hit the stands in the U.S in the spring of 2012 to wonderful reviews.

Ann was born in Washington D.C. and, as a child, moved around several Midwestern cities, most notably Chicago and Pittsburgh. After moving to Cleveland, Toronto, Cincinnati, and Kalamazoo, she settled in Ann Arbor, where The Christmas Cookie Club is set. Ann received an undergraduate degree in Anthropology, and a graduate degree in Clinical Social Work and maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Ann Arbor. She studied writing at the University of Michigan, attended workshops at Sewanee and Squaw Valley Writers’ Conferences.

When she’s not writing, Ann makes art: metal sculptures, acrylic and watercolor paintings, jewelry, and altered books. Her art is seen throughout this site and can be viewed in the gallery. She also loves to dance to a wide assortment of music (blues, rock, rap, and classical) and work out. On a winter day in Ann Arbor, you can find Ann with her friends or family making homemade jams, cookies and inventing recipes. Or escaping the snow for a beach and snorkeling. Ann has three children and four grandchildren.

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GIVEAWAY DETAILS

I have 2 copies of A Gift for My Sister by Ann Pearlman to share with my readers.  To enter…

  • For 1 entry simply leave me a comment entering the giveaway.
  • For 2 entries, follow my blog.  If you already do, thanks, and please let me know so I can pass the extra entry on to you as well.
  • For 3 entries, blog or tweet this giveaway and spread the word!

This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents (no PO boxes) and I will draw for the winners on Saturday, May 26/12.  Good luck!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Love books where people get to know about each other and hopefully grow together. If this is a PRINT giveaway please count me in.

    I loved the Cookie Club book.

  2. I am a gfc and email follower.

    PS – the road trip venue is a good way to achieve the end mentioned in the review.

  5. Family sagas and relationships interest me very much. I am an e-mail subscriber.

  10. Follow by email. twitter at rhondareads will tweet thanks for great giveaway.

  11. This book sounds like it takes in all elements of family as well as the character of the surroundings and culture. I live in Michigan and know Detroit so this interests me in particular. I follow you via email at the same address listed here. Thanks for the chance to win this book!

  14. Lovely presentation, Darlene! I’m a follower, and I’ll post this in my blog’s sidebar. It sounds like a very interesting book.

  15. OMG, Ann is an awesome author. Her books are just simpley outstanding. It is such an honor just to enter a giveaway for any of her books and to read them. She is such an inspiration to all who write and read. Thank you so much for the giveaways. I’m a follower and I tweeted.
    https://twitter.com/#!/Dyniy/status/199218650174066688
    It’s also Sammy Sunday so give him a very special hug from me Please. Have a great week Dar & I hope you Mom is feeling better. God Bless all. 😉

  16. I took a few road trips with my sister. Sometimes they were pretty tough. But I loved them. I wish she was still here to go on more of them. The book sounds terrific. I’d love to read it.

    lkish77123 at gmail dot com

  20. I enjoy reading books where people really get to know each other even though there are problems going on all around them. Thanks for the chance.

  25. I am one of 5 sisters…We are all very close. This book sounds like one I can get lost in. Would like the chance to win one. Thanks!

  26. What a lovely gesture to give away this new book. Hope I win. Thanks so much.

  27. This book sounds very much like something I would enjoy reading. I would sure like to win a copy! Thanks!

  30. -1+ This sounds really good! Count me in!

    -+2 blog follower
    -+3 tweeted

    Margaret
    singitm(at)hotmail(dot)com

  31. Amazing the things she has done in her life! wow we should all take it in & try to live life to the fullest as she has & continues to do so. I’d love to read this book as I have 2 sisters. Please enter me 🙂

  32. I follow you on GFC, NetworkedBlogs, an email subscriber, blog. I love your Sammy!

  37. Please enter my name in the giveaway. Thank you, Darlene, for offering the contest.

  38. This story sounds full of layers that will keep me hooked. I’m glad you spotlighted this book because this is the first I’ve heard of it and the author. I’m going to check out the blurb for The Christmas Cookie Club.