Article: More than chick lit: Gabriele adds heart and substance

Lisa Gabriele's The Almost Archer Sisters (Simon & Schuster, 272 pages, $14) is being promoted as chick lit. But if readers can get past the heaving book jacket and the heroine's cutesy name (Peachy), they will be treated to a novel that's as easy to read as your average chick-lit pick, but with much more substance and heart.

Georgia Peach Archer has always felt second best compared to her beautiful, thin and rich half-sister Beth. She even married Beth's high school boyfriend Beau -- partly because she loved him, but also because Beth showed signs of jealousy that Peachy had someone who was once hers. The two sisters could not be more different. Beth left their home in Canada as quickly as ...

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