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My Sister’s Continent is a contemporary
retelling of Freud’s infamous “Dora” case study,
following a loosely parallel plot and containing similarly
controversial sexual themes and layers of possibilities. Kirby
is a young woman attempting to come to terms with a “failed”
bout of therapy while concurrently trying to decipher the
truth about the life of her identical twin, Kendra. Two years
after Kendra’s mysterious disappearance, Kirby has only the
journals Kendra left behind by which to examine her sister’s—and
her own—past. But when she is sent a skewed case study
of herself by her former psychiatrist, she decides to respond
by using Kendra’s journals to reconstruct her final months
with her sister and her brief time in therapy, finally creating
her own version of the truth.
Gina Frangello is the Executive
Editor of Other Voices magazine/OV Books. Her short
fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including
StoryQuarterly, Swink, two girls review and Prairie
Schooner. She also guest-edited the fiction anthology
Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters.
She lives in Chicago.
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