Sister

Abigail Schiller grows up in a rural Catholic community in Wisconsin, where her family life appears ordinary from the outside. That picture collapses when her younger brother Sam vanishes at seventeen. He has fled their father's strict ideas about what it means to be a man, and a household where violence is present but their mother will not acknowledge it.

Now thirty and pregnant with her first child, Abby resolves to follow the path Sam took into his troubled final years. The search presses her to confront her family and the version of events she has always accepted, and it forces her to reconsider who she is within that family.

The novel is by A. Manette Ansay, the award-winning author of Vinegar Hill. Its concerns include family, memory, and faith.