TY - BOOK AU - Rasmussen,Rebecca TI - The Bird sisters: a novel SN - 9780307717979 AV - PS3618.A78 B57 2011b U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Broadway Paperbacks KW - Sisters KW - Fiction KW - Single women KW - Reminiscing in old age KW - fast KW - Domestic fiction KW - gsafd KW - lcgft N1 - Includes Readers' guide, p. [293]-295; Fiction; , gift N2 - As elderly women, sisters Twiss and Milly live alone in the house where they grew up in Spring Green, Wis. They spend their days tending to injured birds and roaming their land, lost in memories. For Milly, there is the constant reminder of what could have been. Twiss spent her childhood happily trailing behind their golf-pro father, but Milly dreamed about a family and children that never happened. There was hope for a young Milly, until an accident strips their father of his golfing abilities and sets in motion a series of events that rips apart the already unstable family ER -