Vroege Recensenten

From murder to bear hunts to the deconstruction of the guiding principles of an entire religious sect, Sister Liberty is a fully-fledged revolution. Independent Book Review

The narrative is both whimsical and entertaining, even as it crescendos to a shocking conclusion. Booklife

1885. When murderous circumstances force the widows Annie and Euphémie, and the precocious Auguste, to flee their French village, a quartet of missionaries from the Church of Solemn stow them away withing the Statue of Liberty's head on a steamer that reaches New York after a deadly tempest. From New York, the missionaries usher the refugees to their staid village of Solemn in southern Indiana, where pleasure is forbidden in the name of God.

The villagers embrace the refugees while avoiding certain delicate subjects, such as the relationship between the widows, and Auguste's endless blasphemies.

These delicate subjects become unavoidable when Solemn is tapped to host the All-Tent Revival. The Revival calls itself "a multi-denominational marketplace for God." More accurate would be "a time-bomb composed of two-hundred rival factions of late-19th-century American crack-pot religious sects."

Guess who sets off that bomb.

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Dear Reader: Sister Liberty is a feminist non-romantic/non-erotic book about 19th-century French lesbians trying to survive in a southern Indiana religious cult. It is not whimsical* or cute or quirky. However, it is shrewd, absurd, hilarious, and utterly unconcerned with tropes, genres, commercial success, or the insecurity of zealots.

Please adjust your expectations accordingly.

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*Yes, I know.