My Sister My Love

Joyce Carol Oates's most controversial novel to date‚ and certainly her most satirical‚ My Sister‚ My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike recounts the saga of a murder through the eyes of the ninteen-year-old "survivor" of a family torn apart by intense media scrutiny. In this ingeniously constructed novel - part mystery‚ part elegy for the narrator's six-year-old sister‚ and part expose of the pretensions of upper-middle-class suburbia - Joyce Carol Oates explores with unexpected sympathy and subtelty the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.