Jam and Dixie. Zarr S.

American writer, finalist of the National Book Prize Sarah Zarr with great love and experiencing tells about the fate of two girls-sister: the beauty of Dixie and the wise, for years, serious jam-so different and so the same in her desire to maintain family and fidelity to each other.

for two years, before the birth of the younger sister, Jam was a favorite child. And then everything changed. Jam forgot what security and parental care are. Every day he brought new problems, and it seemed that even his dreams had no strength. But Dixie was a bright window in her life. Jam grew up, taking care of her sister, how their mother, always busy with her experiences, could not, and certainly how their father could not, whose unexpected visits were the only thing that was worse than his frequent absence. And once the sisters had a chance to live another, beautiful, carefree life. Let not long, only one day, but they will have a piece of happiness and freedom.