Jessica Handler, an adjunct instructor in creative writing at Oglethorpe, was a featured author at the 2015 Decatur Book Festival over Labor Day weekend.

She discussed her award-winning 2009 book, Invisible Sisters: a Memoir, her extraordinary story of coming of age as the odd one out—the daughter of progressive Jewish parents who moved to the South to participate in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the healthy sister among sick siblings, and eventually, as the only sister left standing.

Called “deeply moving and exquisitely written,” Invisible Sisters was named as one the “Twenty Five Books All Georgians Should Read” in 2010.