BOOK REVIEW: BLUE SISTERS –
Sept. 3, 2024 – Avery’s “boring,” perfectly constructed, sober life starts to crack under the weight of her grief when she cheats on her wife, Chiti — a 40-year-old therapist who pressures her to have a child — with Charlie, a poet she meets in Alcoholics Anonymous. “She has said the words I need a drink 132 times so far this year.” Nicky’s life was comparatively quiet: The sensitive sister with “a carnival of feelings she never tried to hide,” she lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she taught high school English “10 blocks from where she grew up,” and longed to become a mother. As the sisters reckon with losing her — to an overdose of the painkillers she took in secret, for the chronic pain caused by her endometriosis — they must also come to terms with their own relationships to addiction, which “whirred through all of them like electricity through a circuit.”
