Getting Right - Softcover

Gary Wilson's Getting Right got right to me. It's smart and funny but, more than anything, it's achingly honest about family - the hurts that persist no matter how many apologies or how much forgiveness, the unreliability of shared memories, and the constancy of love, imperfect and annoying as it may be. This is a beautiful read. --Achy Obejas, author of the novel Ruins and editor of Immigrant Voices. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

Suppose your more than mildly irritating leech of a sister calls you, as she usually does wanting money, only this time she says instead that she has cancer and in the course of the conversation challenges you to write the story of her life. You say, sure, you'll do that but you'll tell it the way you see it. The tale that emerges involves not only the dying sister, Connie, but brother Len as well. And it's also about "me," the sibling invited to narrate their shared story and whose interplay of memory and imagination raises the question of whether "the truth" of Connie's life - or of anyone's for that matter - can ever be known.