Blue Sisters

A year ago, 27-year-old Nicky Blue died unexpectedly in her family’s New York City apartment. While their perennially absent parents retreat upstate, the remaining Blue sisters attempt to heal, far from each other and from New York. Oldest sister Avery is a London-based lawyer and recovering heroin addict who allows herself one cigarette a day and shoplifts high-end items for a thrill, keeping the indiscretions from her wife. Following a body- and soul-crushing defeat, middle sister Bonnie, a professional boxer, flees the ring to work as a bouncer for a Los Angeles dive bar. Baby sister Lucky is an international fashion model who lives in Paris, alone but for the company of drinks and drugs. The sisters reunite in Manhattan after learning that their parents plan to sell the apartment and begin to navigate their grief, addictions, and dreams together. Mellors (Cleopatra and Frankenstein) thoughtfully uses the expanse of her second novel to fully develop the characters, including those who are secondary. Readers will root for the Blue sisters as individuals and as a family.