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Besides the perfect gift for your sister, Sisters! Bonded by Love and Laughter is a wonderful book club pick.
We’ve created a Sisters! Book Club Guide to help keep the conversation positive and fun. It includes sample discussion questions, sisterly snacks, sister songs and sister gifts.
Published by the University of Dayton’s Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop, the book explores the humorous, nobody-else-could-ever-understand, special world of sister relationships — and friends in your life who are just like sisters. It is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and through the University of Dayton's Bookstore, with proceeds benefitting the workshop’s endowment fund that’s used to keep the event affordable for writers.
Sisters! features 21 original, hilarious stories by the winners of Nickie’s Prize for Humor Writing, plus sister stories from and interviews with New York Times bestselling authors Kelly Corrigan, Annabelle Gurwitch, Jenny Lawson, Peggy Rowe, Gretchen Rubin, Carol Saline, Deborah Tannen and Adriana Trigiani; Saturday Night Live legends Laraine Newman and Alan Zweibel; prolific essayists Westina Matthews and Marion Winik; stand-up comic Wendy Liebman; songwriter Stella Parton; and a variety of diverse voices of all ages.
There’s something for Bombeck fans, too — an Erma Bombeck column about her best friend and sister by choice, Mayva, and celebrity writer Nancy Berk’s interview with Andy and Matt Bombeck about their heartwarming memories growing up with their older sister, Betsy.
With Q&As with famous sisters, poems and songs about sisters, quotes from and lists of trivia about real and fictional sisters in books, television and film, Sisters! is a definitive guide on the bonds of sisterhood — and the perfect book for every sister.
Bestselling author Amy Ephron calls Sisters! Bonded by Love and Laughter, “a tribute to the love, laughter and closeness of family that Erma Bombeck so brilliantly inhabited.”
For more on Sisters! Bonded by Love and Laughter, visit go.udayton.edu/erma/sisters. Download the book club guide.