A Gift For My Sister opens with Sky, a lawyer, as a little girl reminiscing about her childhood and losing her father at the tender age of seven and has to walk the life path pretending it did not shatter her world, for everyone around her treated her as a disease and she is contagious .
The character Sky deeply grieving in her sorrow thinks of
her father, his sudden death and like a windy storm her life's path was changed
with surprises and personal trials.
First she had to accept a step sister who replaced her only
child status away in momma's heart she became lost and she was left to fend for
herself. She is traveling through life
as a discarded broken vessel which leads her to make impulsive choices. Such as
a love affair at a tender age, of eight grade and become a young mother to
sweet Rachael too early in her life. And has a child born out of commitment to
the only refugee holding her safe in the blowing unpredictable winds of her
life, her man Tory.
Another personal
storms lashing at Sky to add to the sorrowful agony she has experienced, she
loses her BFF, Mia to an unexpected death and the storms keep pouring as other
tragedies occurred which were so painful and soul searing this reader used a
box of Kleenex to finished the tumult and haunting story of the two sisters
finding themselves in the midst of obstacles on the path of traveling life and
reminiscing with elegant pose about their past to present and what the futures
holds..
This story revolves around two half-sisters, Sky the older
one and a lawyer and Tara the younger one, a promising rap singer and they are
divided from the beginning of their existence and are fateful to come together
in unity at the end of this inspiring read to discover their selves and the
theme of forgiveness with a an renewal of their sisterhood.
Their union is a stormy and tender relationship. The younger
sister Tara is a rap singer on the rise to become a superstar, has her man Aaron
and sweet baby Levy yet has her own insecurities, her father walked on the
family and the girls’ mother became distant and did not have faith in men.
The younger sister Tara is involved with a rap group, her
baby is Levy and described as if he is real and squeezable, and all the
children in the story are delightful toddlers and add humor to it.
Sky speaks about the pain of losing her best friend and the
intensity pours out of the pages and she is trying to function through the
darkness sharing her private thoughts of her daily life. As the plot continues there are more personal
trials that come like a wicked thunderstorm and kept pounding upon them. The
major infliction was connected to the everyone has a moment in their lives when
lightning strikes and you are alerted to the most shattering news a living
person receives about someone close to you is in trouble or deceased and you
look at the clock, remembering that exact moment as it is etched deep into the
cervices of the core of our being.
In this story the clock stops at 3:42 a.m., for Sky this was
her point of no return or healing after absorbing the reality of the truth.
Once again the storms rolls in and captures her in its grips
and she has to struggle to come up for air or give up and let the deep slumber
of defeat swallow her up leaving all behind.
The author is able to switch between characters, from the
two sisters, the men in their lives, and others with an easy reading flow.
The author adds expressive details and speaks of the
characters as they were her actual family and friends, he chapters about the
younger sister Tara and her husband Aaron and their baby Levy is written with intensity
and depth of poetic language of the deepest emotions of what ones hides but does
not voiced out loud about fear, jealous and other sensitive topics. Tara and
her family give the reader a glimpse in the highs and lows about the rise to
fame as rap singers, the divorce of her mom and husband and the abandonment she
felt when her dad walked out on the family and the resentment she held for Sky
the apple of mom’s eye.
She is hurt by the abandonment of her father and meeting her
new step mom, and other issues yet to be able to cherish the little gifts in
life and tries to balance the past and present with her music and acceptance
and forgiveness and have no regrets. She is this reader’s hero because the
silent treatment from her dad made her cunning and she got her justice in a
sweet way, he the father should be responsible for her dreams and she took it
upon herself to earn them with or with-out his assistance. Showing strength and
becoming an independent strong woman. This action was the start of her music
career with a purchase of an instrument...
Back to Sky, she is having flashbacks like lighting in a
storm then the thunder is loud, for another tragedy bolts her into a harsh
reality that everything she cherishes is about to go under an attack as her
personal life goes through a cyclone of terrifying speed, out of control.
This story is sentimental, full of agony and conflict.
As it continues it speaks of deadly medical conditions and
what happens to Sky and the one she loves with every ounce of her being.
The storms are raging yet the author has the characters hold
on tight to hope, as they are drowning in all the emotional, physically and
spiritual battles each face in their own way and described their insight of a
lesson learned.
An event that crushes
Sky’s world has Tara deciding to put the bitterness aside to come to a compromise
and step up to be a caretaker to her sister Sky, yet the jealous,
resentment and anger lies under the
surface under the surface, like a volcano and is about to explode.
For the two step sisters are walking a fragile line of
caring or distancing from each other due to conflicts they can't not get
pass. The tension in the plot, between
the two you could cut with a knife.
To add to the mix, Tara is traveling with her homies her
band, and they are like family to her and now her sister and Rachael are
accepted.
They travelled across the states to arrive at their next schedule
show, in between stopping at tourist sites and other places of interest which
all contribute to the rumbling volcano waiting for a release valve.
This book is about life's hardships and two half-sisters
Sky, a lawyer and Tara, a rap star who were estrange until the lighting of tragedy
strikes one and they both come together in grief to rebuild their broken
relationship and to remember all they lost to come to know each other deeply
and repair their broken bond and find their role in their large and extended
family.
During the roller coaster ride they call life there were
lost and found and learn lessons and gain a deep bond of insight and
understanding about each other, their past and what to enjoy in their future as
they journey divided then together in their paths of self-discovery and forgiveness
This reader desires to include some writing of this
insightful life tapestry of the two half-sisters and had their struggles and
acceptance was a gift to a sister.
"I consider the luck of simply being born, of being
plucked out of the cosmos and bestowed with eyes to see, and nerves to feel,
and ears to hear. Our senses. Our speech. Our breath. How crucial and insistent
our ceaseless moving lungs from our first cry to our last."
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