What Her Sister Carried

Published as part of RP Media's 30th-anniversary series. After the death of her estranged sister Delfina, Luísa Medeiros returns to their Portuguese American hometown to handle the practical aftermath of the funeral: borrowed dishes, leftover food, parish obligations, and old grievances. But as she begins returning casseroles and pie plates around town, small discoveries force her to reconsider the story she has long believed about Delfina and the family rupture that separated them. A restrained, emotionally layered domestic mystery about sibling estrangement, community memory, grief, and the truths ordinary objects can carry.