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Title: Booth's Sister

Author: Jane Singer

Narrator: Jane Singer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-12

Publisher: BelleBooks, Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

"My brother killed Abraham Lincoln. That is my weight, my shame. While he remained at large, I was held captive in my home. I should have told the soldiers who came with guns drawn and bayonets at the ready this true thing: I might have stopped him, for I harbored him and kept his secrets. I was a pie safe locked tight and guilty as he."

Asia Booth Clarke was 29 years old and pregnant when Union soldiers and Federal detectives stormed her Philadelphia home in search of her assassin-brother. John Wilkes Booth's older sister had grown up in one of America's most notoriously troubled but spectacularly acclaimed acting families. "Johnny" and Edwin, her handsome brothers, were the matinee idols of the era. When John Wilkes Booth's crime left the nation in furious mourning and the Booth family under a dark cloud of accusation, it was Asia who bore the brunt.

Booth's Sister was inspired by Asia Booth Clarke's personal memoirs. Author, Civil War scholar and storyteller Jane Singer has masterfully imagined the family dynamics and intimate dilemmas that led to one of America's most fateful crimes and left a sister's life in shambles.

Members Reviews:

the disjointed manner is purposeful

I liked this book and I appreciated the fact that it rambled. It was from the thoughts of someone and I guess it takes a cluttered mind to understand it. I loved the movie The Science of Dreaming which this book reminds me of. Most people hated it because it seemed to make no sense, but to me, it was perfectly clear. You have to read it as thought you are thinking this yourself and fantasizing about another world. I really enjoyed it and I'm still at a lost how John became the man he was at the end. Just scary to think how easily influenced people can be.

One Star

This book was poorly written and just a total waste of time

Tedious

I love historical fiction, so the thought of reading about Booth's sister gave me pause. What would it be like to be the sister of a hated assassin? Singer begins strong, but weakens terribly as she drifts back to the heroine's childhood. Too much Shakesphere, too little about the story's heroine. Other than she loved her brother, wanted to follow her father's footsteps on stage but could not because of her gender, married a man she didn't really love,and ended her life in exile - what do we know? too little, I'm afraid. Singer missed her mark.

Love it or hate it

I don't do a lot of reviews but decided I needed to do this one. It is a book that you love or hate, but personally, I liked it. If you have a Kindle try a sample. Booth's sister, Asia, wanted to be the actor and the favorite son but her brother got both parts. They have an intimate but not quite incestuous relationship and their crazy father made a mess of them both. As John Wilkes becomes more and more a confederate, pro-slavery radical,Asia struggles with her love of him and her opposition to his politics. Attitudes toward women are also a big factor in this book. Since they are all a little psychotic, the style is apparently not appealing to some, but I liked it. Don't make a decision on the overall average rating.

I know it's supposed to be fiction, but

First of all, this book is just a rambling disjointed mess that is very difficult to read. But the thing that really bothered me is the statement in the very first pages of the book that Asia Booth Clarke had three brothers.