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【活人3名，死人1名，快樂的人：從缺】
布魯家的手足有四人，最得人疼的那個已經死了。
小妹Nicky死於止痛藥過量的一年後，三個姊妹各自面對人生的困境。
大姊Avery從小擔起親職，照顧被酗酒父親與冷漠母親忽視的妹妹們，如今她已是倫敦的成功律師，戒酒成功、婚姻穩定，人生看似光鮮亮麗，卻早已快撐不下去；二姊Bonnie曾是世界級金牌拳手，卻在一場比賽中失利，黯然離開擂台，靠擔任夜店警衛維生，但眼下她的飯碗也搖搖欲墜；三姊Lucky少女時期便以模特兒身分穿梭各大社交場合，這位流連派對，靠成癮藥物逃避人生的年輕超模，在業界已聲名狼藉。
父母準備將老公寓出售，那些在此滋長蔓延的，盤根錯節的新仇與舊恨，也隨著三姊妹被迫返回老家重聚，一觸即發…
以出道作Cleopatra and Frankenstein打開知名度的新銳小說家Coco Mellors，再次聚焦於都會燈火的背光處：充滿孤獨、藥物與酒精癮頭、以及源自原生家庭的—未必是創傷但確實留下深刻影響—沾黏在家人之愛之上，於是難以俐落切除、精準分離的複雜情感。
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this “deeply nuanced and compelling” (Vogue) novel, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein.
“A beautiful portrait of grief and the world-shaping bond sisters share.”—Real Simple
A VOGUE AND HARPER’S BAZAAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left the family reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.
But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize that the greatest secrets they’ve been keeping might not have been from one another but from themselves.
Imbued with Coco Mellors’s signature combination of humor and heart, Blue Sisters is a story of what it takes to keep living after loss—and, ultimately, to fall in love with life again.
