Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain ``devoted``--as long as they stay on opposite coasts.
When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father.
Cynthia, however, doesn't understand how Frances can ignore the past their father's presence revives, a past that includes suspicions about their mother's death twenty-five years earlier.
As Thanksgiving Day arrives, with a houseful of guests looking forward to dinner, the sisters continue to struggle with different versions of a shared past, their conflict escalating to a dramatic, suspenseful climax.
Shannon Ravenel Books The ghost at the table, paperback/suzanne berne
