The Wilder sisters fall in love with men when they least expect it--and most need it. Rose, the older, more practical one, is a widow who lives in New Mexico and has two ungrateful kids, a bored dog, and a horse with a bad back. Lily, the younger, more daring sister, lives in Southern California, where she has put her career before everything else--including love. Lily and Rose flee to their parents' ranch, for some emotional detox. But the two haven't spoken in five long years, and spending time togther is the last thing they'd planned on. Nor had either anticipated being so actively pusued by lovestruck men. Readers will be in their corner all the way as they rediscover the bonds of sisterhood and slowly open their hearts to love.
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""The Wilder Sisters" is the richest, truest, funniest, sexiest, and most satisfying story about sisters I have read. The writing is luminous, the characters unforgettable, and the end brought me to tears of awe. I loved the world of the Wilder Sisters--a New Mexico filled with horses and audacious women and luscious food and superstition and saints. I longed to there myself, and felt a hollow ache when the story came to its end." -- Sara Davidson, author of "Cowboy: A Love Story" and "Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties""This fascinating fiction will make you believe in storybook endings." --"Cosmopolitan""Watch your back, Larry McMurtry....Mapson's tale of two sisters raised on a horse ranch in northern New Mexico unfolds as unhurriedly as a Hank Williams ballad and pulls you into its catchy, sometimes raw and sexy, story with ease." --"Los Angeles Times"""The Wilder Sisters" is smart and funny....I predict that this book will be passed lovingly back and forth among many women (and men who want to understand them)." --"St. Louis Post-Dispatch""A delightful fifth novel....A clean, honest, easy, unadorned tale." --"Kirkus Reviews""Mapson is a straightforward, if sassy, analyst of human relations...."The Wilder Sisters" is a spirited romp of a novel....Gut-busting, sometimes gut-wrenching. A companionable high desert tale for summer." --"Boston Globe"
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I used to love my children," Rose Wilder Flynn said as she held the mare's bound tail aside so the vet, his gloved and greased arm sunk up to the shoulder inside the horse, could palpate the horns of the uterus for signs of pregnancy. Read the first page
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I used to love my children," Rose Wilder Flynn said as she held the mare's bound tail aside so the vet, his gloved and greased arm sunk up to the shoulder inside the horse, could palpate the horns of the uterus for signs of pregnancy. Read the first page
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By A Customer
Format:Paperback
New mexico and californai are the setting for this beautiful novel tracing the loves and lives of the two wilder sisters. One is a 35 year old US semi Bridget type and the other is a 40 yr old widow who fall for her boss, a vet.
Reading a novel like this defines my belief in the relaxation of reading and i could not put it down. mapson has an art of making you really care what happens to her characters and the american locations are described with an evocation that made me feel, like watching 'Northern exposure" i wanted to live in that small town in New mexico.
Reading a novel like this defines my belief in the relaxation of reading and i could not put it down. mapson has an art of making you really care what happens to her characters and the american locations are described with an evocation that made me feel, like watching 'Northern exposure" i wanted to live in that small town in New mexico.
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
Ms. Mapson's talent continues to expand. How nice that it doesn't have to rush from crisis to crisis to grab the reader's attention. The charatcters are well developed and multi-dimensional. The comment one reader made about it being the "thinking woman's Danielle Steel" is really too trite. This book is much fuller, and I didn't feel my emotions were being manipulated by the story.
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
I have read all of Jo-Ann Mapson's books and this is one of the best. She is a wonderful writer who never disappoints me with her stories that truly show the hearts of women. Her women are real and their situations familiar to any woman who has loved a man, a parent, a sibling, a horse or a dog. She gets better and better with each book and I can't wait for each one to come out. I always buy her in hardback because I cannot wait for the paperbacks to come out. I would like to go on a trail ride with her just to hear where some of her marvelous plots come from. I hope she continues to give us more literate, articulate, inspiring and heartful novels. Thanks, Ms. Mapson, for continuing to gift us with your work.
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
Note to Mapson: Independent women do not base their lives around men. Every woman in this book gauges her reaction in regard to the Y chromosome. I suppose it's an improvement on the Harlequin genre, but not by much.
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
I love the Wilder Sisters for the great, warm writing, the characters one really cares about, the luminous setting in the last toehold of old New Mexico, and--especially--the sexy sex between adults of a certain age. Bravo Jo Ann Mapson. What a great storyteller.
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
I have friends who loved HANK AND CHLOE but have said her books move a little slowly. I have to agree because although I did find THE WILDER SISTERS to be a good read, it wasn't a barn-burner. If you like a good book about relationships with no gauranteed happily-ever-after, you will enjoy this book. I do have a question, though: Why in the world did the author choose to name two characters with the same first name?? Austin's ex-wife was named Leah and so was Tres' step-daughter. It wasn't particularly confusing, but there didn't seem to be any explanation. Very odd, IMO.
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
As a male reader, I always come away from reading one of Jo-Ann Mapson's books better understanding how women think and feel about love, relationships and....men. In The Wilder Sisters, I particularly enjoyed the family dynamics of Rose and Lily's parents, who operate a horse ranch in Floralee, New Mexico. While there is no actual town of Floralee on the map, I found clues that made me believe we were in Taos--Michael's Restaurant, Sage Bakery, etc. Mapson's strength in painting locales and developing characters is strong and convincing. She doesn't shy away from examining human imperfections, but she doesn't male-bash, either. Austin, the alcoholic vet Rose has a crush on, comes across as a complex, sympathetic character. So does Rose's father, Chance, but I have to say my favorite character was Shep Hallford, the ranch wrangler. In this respect, Mapson's writing belongs right up there with Larry McMurtry--if he wore a skirt.
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Format:Hardcover
It has been about five years since the Wilder sisters even spoke to one another. Though he was a philander, Rose is still recovering from the loss of her spouse to a drunken driver two years ago. Though wary of being alone, she is happy that her two adult children are on their own. Rose decides to visit her parent's ranch in nearby Floralee, New Mexico for some tender loving care. Nearly two decades ago, Lily moved to Southern California where she runs a very successful medical equipment business. Lily has had a succession of shallow lovers, which has left her lonely and questioning: is that all there is? She returns to her parents' ranch for some tender loving care.
Though neither sibling is particularly happy to see the other, they begin to rub off on each other. Rose gains the courage to seek out the love of the man she cherishes with all her heart. Lily gains the passion to seek out the man she loves, but left behind. Both males have their own demons so the Wilder sisters know they have their work cut out if they are to attain true happiness.
THE WILDER SISTERS is a superbly drawn character study that allows individuals to grieve, sorrow, and despair their lot in life. The story line centers around four walking wounded souls, whose baggage weighs them down so that relationships never remain healthy. Each of the four protagonists is fully developed as readers can easily trace their motives to their past so that risks to the heart prove difficult. JoAnn Mapson writes a wonderful, warm revealing tale that takes the reader inside the wacky world of emotional turmoil that is must reading for fans of relationship drama.
Harriet Klausner
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