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The Neapolitan Sisters

A Novel of Heritage and Home

by Margo Candela
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2023 International Latino Book Award Winner
A TODAY.COM MOST ANTICIPATED LATINX BOOK OF 2022!
Three sisters. Three vastly different lives. A maelstrom of family secrets. For fans of María Amparo Escandón and Laurie Frankel, Margo Candela pens a riotous, provocative tale of family and sisterhood.
Growing up with a kind but alcoholic father and a suspicious, passive aggressive mother, the Bernal  sisters each developed their own way of coping: Dulcina had her art and drugs and alcohol, Claudia plunged into her studies and fled to Princeton, and Maritza watched one Disney movie after another in between devouring romance novels.
Now all grown up, the sisters are reunited at last for Maritza’s dream wedding. But they are no less different than they were growing up: Maritza is a princess bridezilla, Claudia is the family “fixer,” and Dulcina “Dooley” is finally sober.  With all three Bernal sisters back in their East L.A. home, each begins to take steps to come to terms with each other, their parents, and the secrets from their shared past. While their lives may have taken different paths, they are still sisters at heart.
Told in alternating points of view, The Neapolitan Sisters is a humorous yet moving look at what it means to be a sister, daughter, and ultimately, your own self, despite the pressures that come with being part of a family.

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    August 9, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781639100859

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      • ISBN: 9781639100859
      • File size: 789 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      October 21, 2022
      Candela delivers a funny, poignant story of the strained yet unbreakable bond among three sisters raised by a strict mother and gentle, alcoholic father in a Mexican- American neighborhood of L.A. Dulcina, recovering from addiction, fled to San Francisco years ago with "her art and her anger." Claudia, a Princeton graduate, successful Hollywood producer, and the self-appointed family fixer, struggles to accept love, "playing a one-sided game of relationship chicken." Meanwhile, Maritza, the self-absorbed youngest sister, relentlessly pursues an "awake dreaming" vision of the picture-perfect life. As the family gathers for Maritza's wedding, each sister confronts a turning point in her life. Can they break out of old patterns, or not? Candela captures the pervasive legacy of childhood traumas with a light, insightful touch and well-realized main characters. A richly layered portrait of the Bernal family emerges in alternating internal monologues rendered in each sister's distinct voice and singular perspective. The writing is conversational, witty, and fittingly bitchy. By the end, happiness is in sight for all three, and they remain ". . . very much sisters. Everything else is bullshit."

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