Parting Gifts

Broken by their unorthodox Midwestern childhood sisters Catherine Anne and Jessica Mathers search for love acceptance and worth--often in the most unlikely places. Catherine the oldest of the Mathers sisters is an English professor battling breast cancer with Cytoxan red wine and profanity. Anne is a wife and stay-at-home mother of two struggling to make ends meet in a suburban existence that both suffocates and confounds her. Jessica the youngest by ten years and estranged--by choice--from her family is an exotic dancer who feels safer on stage than in a relationship. But when the sisters are faced with an incomprehensible loss they are forced to reevaluate themselves their damaged bonds and their fragile future. <i>Parting Gifts</i> illuminates one highly dysfunctional family's tentative desperate crawl toward a life of meaning and worth.