Full name: My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike

Author: Joyce Carol Oates Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary, Crime Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780061547485 0061547484

So begins the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an "infamous" American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny expose of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.