My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike by Joyce Carol Oates
In My Sister, My Love, which Oates, disingenuously, calls ‘a work of the imagination solely’, the setting is New Jersey and the murder victim is a six-year-old ice-skating prodigy called Bliss. The Ramseys have become the Rampikes - just to keep the [...]

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Anna Karenina, Bliss, Caricature, Dysfunctional Families, Imagination, Intimate Story, Inversion, Jersey Style, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawyers, Middle Class, Murder Victim, Novel, Prodigy, Ramseys, Reek, Roots, Sarcasm, Tolstoy