Sister, Sister - Paperback

by Eric Jerome Dickey (Author)

Here is New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey's debut novel, a celebration of Black sisterhood hailed by Essence as one of the "50 Most Impactful Black Books Of The Last 50 Years".

Valerie, Inda, and Chiquita are three women looking for love in Los Angeles.

Valerie became the perfect wife to please her husband, Walter, whose football career has gone nowhere--along with their marriage. Then she meets Daniel. Valerie's divorced sister, Inda, has Raymond, who has a hot body, smooth moves--and another girlfriend on the side. Now Inda's scheming to get even. After telling her last boyfriend to hit the road, Chiquita takes up with Thaddeus, Inda and Valerie's irresistible brother. Has Chiquita finally found a good man?

Sexy and in-your-face, Sister, Sister depicts a modern world where woman may have to alter their dreams, yet never stop embracing tomorrow.

"Brims with humor, outrageousness, and affection."--Publishers Weekly

Back Jacket

Sister, Sister is the book that started it all, launching the spectacular career of a uniquely gifted young writer named Eric Jerome Dickey. Hailed by reviewers and embraced by readers, Dickey is now a New York Times bestselling author, whose enthusiastic and devoted fans have propelled every one of his books to #1 on the Blackboard Bestseller List.

Meet Valerie. She became the perfect wife to please a husband whose career -- along with their marriage -- has gone nowhere. Meet Inda, Valerie's divorced sister. Her new man has a hard body, smooth moves -- and another girlfriend on the side. Then there's Chiquita. She thinks she's found the ideal man in Inda and Valerie's brother. But has she? Really? Three women. One's looking for passion. One's hot for revenge. And one's searching for something else entirely.

Totally fresh, true to life, and outrageously funny, Sister, Sister is an irresistible novel about modern women taking on the classic dilemma of love, never backing down, never giving in, and never giving up.

Author Biography

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961-2021) was the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, as well as a six-issue miniseries of graphic novels featuring Storm (X-Men) and the Black Panther. His novel Sister, Sister was honored as one of Essence's "50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years," and A Wanted Woman won the NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work in 2014. His most recent novels include The Blackbirds, Finding Gideon, Bad Men and Wicked Women, Before We Were Wicked, The Business of Lovers, and The Son of Mr. Suleman.