Abby and Her Sisters

Book Description:

When two of author Melanie Bellah’s four teenage daughters died in unrelated incidents, Melanie and her two surviving daughters, Hally and Jennifer, lived through the confusing and tragic period in very separate ways. While Melanie turned to her support system of friends and family, Hally and Jennifer turned to their diaries. Now in their forties and mothers themselves, Hally and Jennifer have shared the diaries they kept as high school students with their mother. In ABBY AND HER SISTERS, Melanie weaves her own recollections together with the raw, honest words of her daughters, painting an astonishing and tragic portrait of an American family in the 1970s. Filled with courage, strength, and love, ABBY AND HER SISTERS is a memoir of adversity and ultimately, survival.