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Once We Were Sisters by Sheila Kohler

This heartfelt memoir hopscotches from South Africa, where the sisters, Maxine and Sheila Kohler, were raised with wealth and privilege, to Paris, Rome, Greece, and even New Haven. The girls’ sheltered childhood helped foster a tender closeness that lasted until Maxine’s tragic, untimely death. Sheila’s grief and guilt over the loss of her sister is heart wrenching. This memoir is most certainly Kohler’s attempt to reconcile this devastation and what she saw as her role surrounding the events.

Ginger, Breakwater Books, Guilford