Joyce Carol Oates's most controversial novel to date, and certainly her most satirical, My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike recounts the saga of a murder through the eyes of the ninteen–year–old "survivor" of a family torn apart by intense media scrutiny. In this ingeniously constructed novel – part mystery, part elegy for the narrator's six–year–old sister, and part expose of the pretensions of upper–middle–class suburbia – Joyce Carol Oates explores with unexpected sympathy and subtelty the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.