Like a Sister Middle Grades these characters try to ground

these characters try to ground themselves—to grow where they find themselves planted—in a world in which the tension between what’s said and unsaid can bend the soul

Sing—comprising a loose trilogy about small town sourthern family life

At home they are just sisters

The resulting color photographs are among Parks’ most powerful images

Kevin Kruse

Like a Sister Middle Grades these characters try to groundWhen the body of reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her twenty fifth birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. A tragedy, certainly, but not a crime. Yet Columbia grad student Lenaprincipled, headstrong, and allergic to the spotlightknows that cant be the case. Despite the bitter truth that the two hadnt spoken in two years, they were half sisters. Lena knew