'Weird Sisters' is a charming read

In Eleanor Brown's debut novel, the Andreas sisters come home to their small college town of Barnwell after learning their mother has breast cancer. Or rather, her cancer provides a convenient opportunity for all three of them to move back home and start getting their lives back on track.

The eldest sister, Rose (Rosalind), never left Barnwell, becoming a math professor at the college. She's engaged to another professor who accepts a teaching position in England, forcing Rose to choose between the life she knows and the life she could have. As the story opens, she cannot make that choice because she's trapped by her own fear and sense of self-importance.

The middle sister, Bianca, known to everyone as "Bean," has just been fired from her job at a New York law firm. That particular scene is rather implausible, but Bean's desire to live well beyond her means, then returning home, humiliated and in debt after failing to make it in New York City, contains much truth. Bean craves attention, preferably from men, and this threatens to prevent her personal growth.

Finally, Cordelia has opted to live a somewhat outdated bohemian gypsy lifestyle, dropping out of college to roam around the country, but when she becomes pregnant, she realizes it is time to settle

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