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"It’s been a long time since I’ve come across a story about sisterhood that resonated with me as much as Little Women, but Blue Sisters captured my heart from the start. We follow four sisters—Avery, Bonnie, Nicky, and Lucky—who grew up together in New York City but have since scattered across the globe. Avery’s in London, Bonnie’s in Los Angeles, and Lucky’s in Paris. Despite their physical distance, their shared DNA and life-long bond act as a compass, always guiding them back to one another.

When Nicky unexpectedly dies, the three remaining sisters return to New York, where they’re forced to confront the sale of their childhood home. As they reckon with the loss of the only person who held them together, they navigate the complexities of grief, the cycle of addiction, and the ties that bind us, even when life pulls us in different directions.

Blue Sisters is the perfect book to kick off your fall reading list. It’s a powerful, heart-wrenching story about family, loss, resilience, and the unbreakable bond between sisters."

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this “deeply nuanced and compelling” (Vogue) novel, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein.

“A beautiful portrait of grief and the world-shaping bond sisters share.”—Real Simple

The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left the family reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.

But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize that the greatest secrets they’ve been keeping might not have been from one another but from themselves.

Imbued with Coco Mellors’s signature combination of humor and heart, Blue Sisters is a story of what it takes to keep living after loss—and, ultimately, to fall in love with life again.

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1. When the novel opens, the Blue sisters are all living different lives in separate cities. How does the loss of Nicky impact each of the sisters differently?

3. Discuss the line: “A sister is not a friend.” What do you think the authors mean by that? Do you have siblings? If so, would you consider your sibling a friend?

4. Discuss the role of addiction in the book. How does it shape the sisters’ choices and actions? Have you ever struggled with addiction or been close to someone who has?

5. How does the author depict grief and the process of healing in the story? Which sister’s journey resonated with you the most?

6. What do you think the New York City apartment meant to each sister? What do you think it symbolized for Nicky?

7. Each Blue sister has their own romantic encounters and frustrations. Whose romantic storyline did you find the most frustrating, and which did you find the most satisfying?

9. When the sisters reunite, they realize that they had very different understandings of Nicky. What were you the most surprised to learn about Nicky and why?

10. The Blue sisters have a complicated relationship with their parents, and their mother plays a small but pivotal role in the novel. How do the sisters’ parental relationships affect their own feelings about motherhood?

11. Discuss the ending of the book. Were you satisfied with how the sisters’ stories were resolved? What were you hoping for each sister? Which sister did you identify with the most? Explain why.

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