La scrittura di Nancy Jensen esplora le complessità delle connessioni umane e dei paesaggi emotivi. La sua prosa è caratterizzata da un acuto intuito psicologico e da un'attenta osservazione della vita quotidiana. Jensen elabora magistralmente il linguaggio, creando immagini suggestive mentre esplora temi di perdita, speranza e ricerca di significato.
The 45 percent of American women who take career breaks know better than anyone that searching for a job---with its new modes of communication, new rules of discoverability, and new expectations---has changed rapidly in the last decade. This book lays out a clear path for anyone ready to re-enter the workforce.
Family secrets reverberate for generations in one of the "Best Novels of 2011" (Kirkus Reviews) Growing up without a mother in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, Bertie Fischer and her older sister, Mabel, have only each other—with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie graduates from eighth grade, good intentions go terribly wrong, setting off a chain of misunderstandings that will change the lives of the next three generations. What happens when nothing turns out as you planned? From the Depression through the second world war and Vietnam, and smaller events both tragic and joyful, Bertie and Mabel forge unexpected identities that are shaped by a past that no one ever talks about. Gorgeously written, with extraordinary insight and emotional truth, Nancy Jensen's brilliant first novel, The Sisters, illuminates the far-reaching power of family and family secrets.