{"product_id":"dear-sister","title":"DEAR SISTER","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree years ago, Denise stopped speaking to her sister. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNeither of them remembers the argument exactly the same way. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow their mother is dead, the family house needs to be emptied, and the sisters are standing in the kitchen together for the first time in years. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt first, Denise thinks the hardest part will be being around Jo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen they find the letters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHidden in a battered shoebox in their mother's closet are pages their mother wrote but never sent. Letters that reach back into the final years of her marriage, the secrets surrounding their father, and the painful events that ultimately drove her daughters apart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Denise and Jo read them, one piece at a time, the story they have each carried for three years begins to change. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDenise discovers that her mother deliberately allowed Jo to believe something that wasn't true. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJo discovers that the betrayal she thought came from her sister was far more complicated than she ever imagined.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd both sisters are forced to confront a harder truth: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTheir mother wasn't trying to hurt them. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe was trying to protect them. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe just made the kind of choice that can protect a family from the truth while quietly destroying the family itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the house is emptied room by room, Denise and Jo begin sorting through more than their mother's belongings. They are sorting through old memories, old loyalties, old resentments and the years they lost believing they knew what happened.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Journey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50358921429240,"sku":null,"price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0804\/7591\/4488\/files\/Two_Black_women_in_their_late_30-0.png?v=1788212673","url":"https:\/\/threadedlore.com\/products\/dear-sister","provider":"Threaded Lore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}