Between sisters
a novel
by Nina Vida
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A two-generation tale of child abuse featuring Lela, kidnaped and raped by her father, who also rapes her sister, Jolene, and kills their mother. Separated by adoption, the sisters' paths cross many years later when Lela helps a father kidnap his daughter because the mother--who is Jolene--is on drugs. By the author of Goodbye Saigon.
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Between Sisters
March 10, 1998, Random House Value Publishing
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in English
0517199785 9780517199787
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Eight-year-old Lela can't understand why her older sister, Jolene, picked her up right from school. At first it was exciting to have Jolene get out of her boyfriend Glenn's car, in front of all the other kids, but now all three of them are driving through the desert, and Lela wants to know why they didn't stop to tell their mother where they were going. "We can't take you back there, and that's all there is to it," Jolene says.
Jolene is desperate to protect Lela from their sexually abusive father, but it is too late. He discovers Jolene's plans and ends up murdering their mother. Their world is shattered, and Lela's childhood innocence is lost. She joins a loving, adoptive family and buries all memories of her former life - even her last memory of Jolene, pledging in a courtroom that she will come back for her someday.
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