"Ravished is how you will feel at the end of Emma Richler's first collection . . . . Something important has happened: not to the characters but to you." --Daniel Mendelsohn,
New York "[A] slim, elegant debut. ...
Sister Crazy is . . . luminescent" --
Los Angeles Times "Comic, poignant, and terrifying, these unusual stories expose the dangers of loving one's family too much" --
The New Yorker "A stunningly beautiful debut. ...
Sister Crazy strikes a perfect balance. It is edgy, touching, dark and warm: not by turns, but all at once" --
January Magazine
In a series of seven episodes, Jemima Weiss revisits what life was like growing up as the sensitive, curious, middle child in an eccentric transatlantic family--her gruff Jewish father, prophetic and omniscient mother, charismatic older brother, and ethereal little sister. A first novel. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.