Sister, Sister book review
- Kyla Denanyoh
- 4 days ago
- 3 min read
Sisters? No.
What happens when friends become as close to you as sisters? That is exactly what happens in Sister Sister, and honestly, this book is really important to me because it is one of the first books that Eric Jerome Dickey wrote.
Today we are talking about Sister Sister by Sister Sister. The book was written by Eric Jerome Dickey. The genre is fiction, and the theme is African American literature.
So let me give you a little bit of background because I am a big fan girl for him.
Eric Jerome Dickey actually worked as an engineer for a number of years. Originally from Memphis, he moved to California and worked as an engineer before a friend asked him to go to a creative writing course. He went to the course, fell in love with writing, and the rest is history.
I learned that from one of the interviews he gave because I always read the author’s notes in the back of books. I watch any interviews that I can find and listen to them as well because he really is one of my favorite authors.
One of the most important things in this book is when Black meets Chiquita. There is drama, cheating, love letters, bricks, and all this crazy stuff happening. As you are reading the book, you later find out that Chiquita is actually from Memphis, and she ends up going back home to meet up with family.
You also start to notice that Eric Jerome Dickey constantly mentions Memphis or Tennessee in his books. He really has that strong tie to Memphis, and he leaves those little treats in the books for readers to find.
Black and Chiquita are really important because they are two sisters who are not related but become incredibly close friends.
Then you have Black and Red, who actually are blood sisters, and they are nothing alike. The book also includes Brown, the brother of Black and Red. Black, Red, Brown. All of them together make up a family, but then you get to see how Chiquita becomes a really tight part of that family too.
“Is blood thicker than water?”
The way Chiquita meets Black is really important because everything from there becomes a complete snowball. It does not stop and it does not slow down at all.
The pace of the book is very fast, and I loved watching Red and her relationship with her husband, Black as she starts dating, and Chiquita dealing with questions about whether blood really is thicker than water.
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Would I reread Sister Sister? Absolutely yes.
One of the strongest reasons why I would reread it is because Eric Jerome Dickey’s books are basically time capsules. Sister Sister was published in 1996, so you hear people talking about cell phones, pagers, and answering machines. The book captures all the jargon, technology, and little details of what people were doing in 1996.
I sound like a historian, but with this being one of the first books he wrote, it really is important to go back and read these books, even out of order. You can compare the current books that came out in the last couple of years to the books he was writing at the beginning of his career.
If you believe that blood is stronger than water, this book will definitely give you something to think about.
Until the next book review,
Kyla
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