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Three wickedly funny sisters.One family's extraordinary legacy.A single suicide note that spans a century ...Meet the Alter sisters: Lady, Vee, and Delph. These three mordantly witty, complex women share their family's apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. They love each other fiercely, but being an Alter isn't easy. Bad luck is in their genes, passed down through the generations. Yet no matter what curves life throws at these siblings - and it's hurled plenty - they always have a wisecrack, and one another.In the waning days of 1999, the trio decides it's time to close the circle of the Alter curse. But first, as the world counts down to the dawn of a new millennium, Lady, Vee, and Delph must write the final chapter of a saga lifetimes in the making - one that is inexorably intertwined with that of the twentieth century itself.



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Judith Claire Mitchell

Judith Claire Mitchell is the author of the novels The Last Day of the War and A Reunion of Ghosts, the latter forthcoming from Harper in March 2015. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, she teaches undergrad and graduate fiction workshops atJudith Claire Mitchell 1 the University of Wisconsin, where she is a professor of English and the director of the MFA program in creative writing. She has received grants and fellowships from the Michener-Copernicus Society of America, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and Bread Loaf, among others.



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