The characters are strongly developed by highlighting their flaws and strong abilities, thus making them look very real. The book centers around a Jewish household thus Jews ideas, customs etc are vividly depicted into the storyline. The theme of this novel focuses lot on changing family dynamics when a father divorces his family leaving behind his children and wife for another woman, which ultimately leads to dysfunction in the household. The shifting narrative from Laura to Miffy where Miffy narrates the past twenty years ago, what possibly led to drift them apart from one another. The plot progresses smoothly as Laura goes through with her bad marriage with a cheating husband, pregnancy and the death of her step father, which leads her face-to-face with her step-brother-cum-ex-boyfriend, Danny. The prose is free-flowing with a fast pace. The narrative is kept funny and witty even though the story is an emotional one. The writing is extremely coherent and bold. The gravity of each and every relationship changed when the best-of-best-friends-turned-into-stepsisters and mostly Laura's relationship with Miffy's brother, Danny, changed forever, resulting in both Miffy and Danny to blame Laura for their father's abandonment. This was twenty years ago, but their inseparable and unbreakable bond of friendship tore apart when Miffy's father left her family to be with Laura's mother. Laura and Miffy were literally inseparable as teenagers, spending most of their afternoons in Laura's bedroom by trying on makeup or discussing about boys they are going to marry in the future or other girlish stuffs. 20 years later, they’re all about to meet again. That is until Miffy’s Jewish father ran off with Laura’s Catholic mother and both of their families imploded-as well as Laura’s intense relationship with Miffy’s brother.
Once they were the best of friends, inseparable as only teenage girls can be. I never think of Laura as my stepsister, but that's what she is. Elbert Hubbard, an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopherīeth Miller, a debut English author, has penned a heart-touching contemporary story, When We Were Sisters about two friends being step sisters and how this relationship changes the course of their whole loves, moreover, it's also about facing with the harsh realities that come with sudden decisions made by a parent in a child's life.Ī funny, poignant debut about female friendship and dysfunctional families
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
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