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After more than 30 years, two sisters find each other.
St. Martin's Press
April 2006
240 pages
ISBN: 0312320949
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
For decades, a well-to-do Baltimore family guarded a secret
too painful to reveal, much less speak of among themselves.
For one daughter, that secret would haunt her for years but
ultimately compel her to take surprising risks and reap
unbelievable rewards--the story of which forms the stunning
narrative of this remarkable memoir.
When Molly Bruce Jacobs, the family's eldest daughter, finds
herself newly sober at the age of thirty-eight, she finally
seeks out and comes face-to-face with this secret: Anne, a
younger sister who was diagnosed at birth with hydrocephalus
("water on the brain") and mental retardation, then
institutionalized. Anne has never been home to visit, and
Jacobs has never seen her. Full of trepidation, Jacobs goes
to meet her sister for the first time. As the book unfilds
and the sisters grow close, Jacobs learns of the decades of
life not shared, and gains surprising insights about
herself, including why she drank for most of her adult life.
In addition, she gradually comes to understand that her
parents' reasons for placing Anne in an institution were far
more complex than she'd ever imagined.
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