Sister Snake WOJNAROWICZ Jennifer Egan moves back and

Jennifer Egan moves back and forth in time to trace the lives of Bennie

In a desert dotted with war-torn towns

Jock McLeish – a divorced

Sofia is forced to run for her life and loses her mother’s most prized possession

And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson

Sister Snake WOJNAROWICZ Jennifer Egan moves back andSisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a nihilistic sugar baby in New York, living from whim to whim and using her charms to make ends meet. But they share a secret: once, they were snakes, basking under a full moon in Tang dynasty China. A thousand years later, their mysterious history is the only thing still binding them