My Sister Life: The Story of My Sister's Disappearance

Novelist Maria Flook lobs a psychic grenade with this mordantly candid dual memoir. She gets inside her runaway sister's head to give a first-person account of life as a teenage prostitute and depicts her own out-of-control adolescence with equally spooky control. No sexual or substance-abuse excess is too weird, no humiliation too abject to escape the pinpoint precision of Flook's blunt prose. Her ice-cold, scarily sexy mother and well-meaning, ineffectual father are penned just as memorably.