Once We Were Sisters is a biography by author Sheila Kohler.
A beautiful, heartbreaking literary memoir about the tragic death of the author’s beloved sister and a tribute to their relationship.

When Sheila Kohler was 37 years old, she received the heartbreaking news that her sister Maxine, just two years her senior, had died when her husband was driving them off a deserted Johannesburg road. Stunned by the news, she immediately flies back to her country of birth, determined to find answers and forced to reconsider his violent history and the lingering effects of the most unusual childhood. theirs – a childhood marked by their death and misguided love. Mom.

Sheila Kohler recounts the life she and her sister lived through. Reliving their childhood in their storybook at the family estate, Crossways, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls, which resulted in the family having to leave their home. and the girls were raised by their mothers, always distant and stifling. .

We followed them to the closed Anglican boarding school, where they first learned of the separation and then studied in Rome and Paris, where they planned their great lives – life interrupted when The two get married at a young age and discover that they have made the wrong choices. Kohler evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but is never broken, even after death.

Sheila Kohler has captured the essence of what it is and isn’t. Trying to make sense of her sister’s tragic death, Kohler explores the inner and outer feelings, hopes, aspirations, and fears of two girls who are inextricably bound to love and care. take care of each other. When one sister dies, the other sister is adrift trying to make sense of the tragedy by reflecting on their lives as children and young girls. It’s a moving story, told with honesty and conviction without falling into sentimentality. I applaud Kohler for her achievement.

• Once We Were Sisters

• A Memoir
• By: Sheila Kohler

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