Sisters

Jonas Hassen Khemiri is the author of six novels, including The Family Clause and Everything I Don't Remember, seven plays, and a collection of short stories and essays. Khemiri is the recipient of a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and numerous other publications. The Sisters is his first book to be written in English. He lives in Brooklyn with his family and teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

A quilt in the winter, a fireplace of embers, a singing kettle, a blazing forest, a steaming bath, a controlled burn - what you hold in your hands generates every kind of heat. There is violence, and some of it burns, but its most consistent and miraculous energy - the energy radiating beneath every sentence of every page - is a kind of geothermal tenderness. Jonas Hassen Khemiri's The Sisters moves generation to generation, neighbour to neighbour, skin to skin, pulse to pulse. If you welcome this novel into your mind, it will warm and transform you