A Reunion of Ghosts and The Last Day of the War by Judith Claire Mitchell
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It is not giving the story away if you know right off that one of three American sisters living together in Manhattan has a tattoo wrapped around her calf that says, “the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children to the 3rd & 4th generations”; or that the sisters, the only known surviving fourth generation, have begun writing a “memoir”; or that in reality this volume is a suicide note, a pact between the sisters, to be enacted on December 31, 1999.