Sister Mine

Infobox Book |
name = Sister Mine


image_caption = Sister Mine jacket cover
author = Tawni O’Dell
country = United States
language = English
genre = Novel
publisher = Random House
release_date = 13 March 2007
pages = 416 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 067089995X (first edition, hardback)
preceded_by = Coal Run (June 2004); Back Roads (January 2000)
followed_by =

"Sister Mine" is the 2007 novel by Tawni O’Dell.

Plot summary

Shae-Lynn Penrose drives a cab in a town where no one needs a cab—but plenty of people need rides. A former police officer with a closet full of miniskirts, a recklessly sharp tongue, and a tendency to deal with men by either beating them up or taking them to bed, she has spent years carving out a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the coal-mining town where she grew up.

Two years ago, five of Shae-Lynn's miner friends were catapulted to media stardom when they were rescued after surviving four days trapped in a mine. As the men struggle to come to terms with the nightmarish memories of their ordeal along with the fallout of their short-lived celebrity, Shae-Lynn finds herself facing harsh realities and reliving bad dreams of her own including her relationship with her brutal father, her conflicted passion for one of the miners, and the hidden identity of the man who fathered her son. When the younger sister she thought was dead arrives on her doorstep followed closely by a gun-wielding Russian gangster, a shady New York lawyer, and a desperate Connecticut housewife, Shae-Lynn is forced to grapple with the horrible truth she discovers about the life her sister's been living, and one ominous question: will her return result in a monstrous act of greed, or one of sacrifice?

Tawni O'Dell's trademark blend of black humor, tenderness, and keen sense of place is evident once again as Shae-Lynn takes on past demons and all-too-present dangers.

Release details

*2007, USA, Shaye Areheart-Random House ISBN 0307351262, Pub date 13 March 2007, Hardback

External links

* [http://www.tawniodell.com Author's website]