Sisters

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Sisters is an autobiographical graphic novel written by Raina Telgemeier as a follow-up to her earlier graphic memoir Smile. It details a long summer road trip taken from San Francisco to Colorado by her family and explores the relationship between Raina and her younger sister, Amara.

Summary
As the story begins, Raina's mother and the three children (the youngest is a boy, Will) are about to drive from San Francisco to Colorado Springs for a family reunion; their father will fly out to join them. As the trip progresses, Telgemeier tells the backstory of herself and her sister in flashbacks denoted by a yellow tint, as if the paper was aging. We see young Raina pestering her parents for a sister, holding baby Amara for the first time, and dealing with a difficult toddler. Along the way, she strews small clues to the larger family drama building in the present day. Although the story is told from Raina's point of view, Amara emerges as the most clearly defined character, perhaps because she has a lot of sharp edges.

One of the themes of Sisters is disappointment: Raina's sister isn't the perfect playmate she expected, the family's pets have an unfortunate tendency to die, and when the family gets to the reunion, Raina finds the cousin she had been looking forward to seeing has grown into someone totally different than the playmate she remembers. The stresses among the youngsters are echoed in the older generation as well. While the book ends on a hopeful note -- a crisis on the return trip brings Raina and Amara closer together -- Telgemeier doesn't tie up all the loose ends. Just as in real life, the story will go on after the storyteller is done.