There's something inherently sinister about moths. Unlike their diurnal cousins, moths lurk about in the dark, brushing against bare arms, fluttering madly around porch lights, and hitching rides indoors on unsuspecting hosts who then have to hunt them down and kill them.
Maybe not everyone shares my aversion to moths, but plenty of people do --- and when Virginia Stone, the narrator of THE SISTER, reveals her lifelong near-obsession with moths, that was certainly a good tip-off that Poppy Adams's debut novel is not just a simple tale of a reunion between two long-estranged sisters. Indeed, as countless secrets unfold through the dispassionate voic