The Sisters
Quite major ... One gawps...at its breadth and ambition. It’s a transnational tour de force that squeezes and expands time like an accordion, or a pair of lungs ... With its accumulation of small, logistical details of life — meals, sleep, sex, transportation, the bathroom, excursions, paperwork, rules, differences in electrical outlets...it demands, and delivers.
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The story unspools with the clever structure following the Mikkola sisters through 35 years of their lives ... Told in vivid prose that explores the immigrant experience, family bonds, and a supposed curse passed from mother to daughter, Khemiri’s bold, intricate family
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Writing in jaunty, run-on sentences often a page or more in length, Khemiri crafts a spectacularly meandering shaggy dog story, abandoning linear plot to focus on small incidents of daily life as Jonas and the sisters, whose lives only intersect occasionally, fall in and out of love and clatter through the world. Readers willing to go along for the lengthy ride should be delighted by Khemiri’s stubborn characters and bouncy prose.
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