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Told in short, episodic chapters, this satirical literary thriller set in Nigeria is easily one of the funniest books about sisters… for those with a dark sense of humor, at least. The Dresden Files: one of the short stories opens with a brother/sister pair who've been whammied into being passionately in love. Eventually the wrongness in their subconscious got too much and they shot themselves. While having sex. Túrin is based on the character of Kullervo from The Kalevala, who has a similar unknowingly incestuous relationship with his sister. In Dean Koontz' The Bad Place, the villain, generally known as "Candy", and his brother, co-protagonist Frank, are two of the offspring of hermaphroditic Roselle (fully reproductively functional as either sex), who was herself the product of brother-on-sister rape.
Ultimately, the families come together over a psychic prediction that they will see a marriage, death, and a baby boy in the upcoming year. She says ‘what’s going on in there? Mom are you ok? Is Dad hitting you?’ My husband kept going like a champ but I was laughing so hard. Super embarrassing. This is why we usually wait until the kids go to bed. Also my husband does not hit me. I don’t know where that came from in her mind.”San Juan, Epifanio, jr., "Method and Meaning in Joyce's 'The Sisters,'" Die Neueren Sprachen, vol. 20 (1971), pp.490–496. Romantic stories from Austen are well-known, but the story of Marianne and Elinor has made sisters groan with sympathy and laugh with joy for over two centuries now. Marianne’s impetuous and passionate style is contrasted with Elinor’s inability to express love outright, but both of them are forced to confront their choices as, in their own ways, love requires them to push their limits. The conclusion is one of those Austen happy endings that you don’t dare to hope for, but ends up making the most sense…and the most sensibility! The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
Roughley, Alan, "Writing Disgust: Joyce's Articulation of the Abject in The Sisters," Mattoid, vol. 48 (1994), pp.213–224. That does not begin to do justice to how tightly wound that family is. Van and Ada start off thinking they're cousins—and second cousins, as while their mothers are sisters, their fathers are cousins. They later find out that they're both the product of an affair between the man Van knew as his father and the woman Ada knew as her mother. The two parental pairs were also second cousins. Oh, right, and Ada's sister (or half-sister, as it ended up being) also had a thing for Van and is Driven to Suicide when it is unrequited. A good deal of the drama between Jory and Kol in Blade Dancer is caused by Jory's concern that they might have the same father (well, that, the machinations of Fayne, and Kol's natalist streak). They don't. We Have Always Lived in the Castle is classic Gothic mystery literature, and is one of the most well-known books about sisterhood and sisters from the 20th century.
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The Sisters" has been a subject of scholarly debate, mostly in regards to the priest's illness. One analysis of Father Flynn's illness throughout the second version of the story shows that Joyce deliberately implied that Father Flynn had central nervous system syphilis. Joyce was interested and qualified enough in medicine to be able to describe a syphilitic and had definite reasons for doing so. The syphilitic nature of Father Flynn's illness is apparent in the author's use of paralysis, which was often used synonymously with paresis (general paralysis of the insane) when Joyce began his revisions in 1905. [7]
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma- This novel is all about the growing unstoppable love between Maya sixteen year old and her brother Lochan who is seventeen year old. Their relationship is shown in a sympathetic light as they did not have a normal childhood. They lost their father early and having a callous mother made them look after their younger siblings. They do commit incest towards the end of the book. The ending was too sad. Moss adds that she doesn’t have a sister herself. “I wonder whether I would have written it if I did.” Linda knows that her sister’s killer will recognize his handiwork and that he will be unable to pass up the chance to interview her.There’s even a side romance or two. OK, and maybe mermaids and…murderous puppets. Travel to Nigeria, under the sea, India, and South Carolina. I asked my dad to send me, and by sixteen I was in college. I just graduated with a Transfer AA and I go to an online college next semester. I work online too. Doing research papers for college assholes who can’t read a book, apparently. So, I when I can, I take the same classes. Slam dunk. Who doesn’t eat up a bit of drama, especially when it doesn’t involve you? And let’s face it: many great books for sisters are quite dark and dysfunctional. I ended up falling off the bed, dragging him down with me & onto some friends who were sleeping on the floor.” However, when Ayoola sets her sights on Korede’s workplace crush, she feels her allegiances shifting.
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