After the father left, Becky turned her attention to surviving the pain of his abandonment. And Becky is the heartbroken alcoholic who felt the father’s abandonment most severely. She’s trying to cheat her sisters out of their inheritance. Lorraine is that meat-and-potatoes practicality - a fundamentalist Christian with this shadowed dishonesty. Julie is really the icon for the American fantasy of beauty. Even though Lorraine was the first character I wrote, Julie was the character I was going after. I think the emotional landscape of CARLETON SISTERS is based on that. I realized there was a story there-about different perspectives on the family by each member.
My sister and I were in this meeting and when she talked about our family, she had an entirely different experience than me.
What was the genesis of the book for you? How would you describe each sister’s personality? What drives their estrangement and their coming back together?Ī: What inspired the novel was an incident at a 12-step meeting in 1988. Q: ABOUT THE CARLETON SISTERS explores sisterly bonds in the face of a major life event. It takes readers on a compelling, high-spirited ride through each sister’s perspective as they navigate middle age, generational trauma, and each other. The novel features a Las Vegas showgirl, a diner waitress, and a heartbroken alcoholic-three sisters-who are called into an obligatory reunion in California’s Central Valley in the late 1990s as a prelude to their mother’s impending death. Her debut novel, ABOUT THE CARLETON SISTERS, is due out June 13 from She Writes Press.
She is a writer and family therapist in Portland, Oregon. After growing up in the Dakotas, Dian Greenwood came to the West Coast during adolescence.
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