Small World

Thank you Bibliolifestyle and Ecco Books for this gifted copy.

Happy Saturday everyone!! I hope everyone has a peaceful weekend ahead of them.

Today I’m sharing a book about sisters who are exploring how their childhood affected them as adults.

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗭𝗶𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀—𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱.

A year after her divorce, Joyce is settling into being single again. She likes her job archiving family photos and videos, and she’s developed a secret comforting hobby: trolling the neighborhood social networking site, Small World, for posts that help solve life’s easiest problems. When her older sister, Lydia, also divorced, calls to tell her she’s moving back east from Los Angeles after almost thirty years away, Joyce invites Lydia to move into her Cambridge apartment. Temporarily. Just until she finds a place of her own.

But their unlikely cohabitation—not helped by annoying new neighbors upstairs—turns out to be the post-divorce rebound relationship Joyce hadn’t planned on. Instead of forging the bond she always dreamed of having with Lydia, their relationship frays. And they rarely discuss the loss of their sister, Eleanor, who was significantly disabled and died when she was only ten years old. When new revelations from their family’s history come to light, will those secrets further split them apart, or course correct their connection for the future?

Written with wry humor and keen sensitivity, Small World is a powerful novel of sisterhood and hope—a reminder that sometimes you have to look back in order to move ahead.

💬 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲?

AOTD: Other than chores and making meatballs, it’s a pretty calm day.