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Sisterhood Everlasting
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Book 5

Sisterhood Everlasting (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Ann Brashares (Author) (edit contributors)

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Return to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . ten years later   From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting... read more

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It's been ten years since Carmen, Lena, Tibby and Bridget lost the traveling pants. Slowly the four have drifted apart, as they all live their own lives. Carmen is a relatively successful actress in NYC, and engaged to a man who could help her career greatly. Lena teaches art in Rhode Island,... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

It's been ten years since Carmen, Lena, Tibby and Bridget lost the traveling pants. Slowly the four have drifted apart, as they all live their own lives. Carmen is a relatively successful actress in NYC, and engaged to a man who could help her career greatly. Lena teaches art in Rhode Island, but she can't get her mind off of Kostos, who is now a rich and famous businessman, and the love they once shared. Bridget is living in San Francisco with her boyfriend, Eric, but she can't shake her restlessness, and keeps on moving them. Tibby has moved to Australia with Brian, and communication has been sparse between them. One day, all of a sudden, Bridget, Lena and Carmen all get a note in the mail from Tibby. She bought them all plane tickets to Fira, the capital of Santorini, in Greece. Everyone is excited over their imminent reunion, but when they arrive there, Tibby is nowhere to be found. Bridget, Lena and Carmen all panic when Tibby has been missing for a few days, and eventually, police come to their house and inform them they found the body of a girl in the Caldera. It turns out to be Tibby, and the sudden tragedy leaves the girls devastated. After going through Tibby's bag, it's discovered that she left a series of letters for Bridget, Carmen and Lena, to be opened after specific dates. Lena reconnects with Kostos, who comforts her at the loss of Tibby. Bridget goes back home, only to eventually run away, traveling through San Francisco, and ends up finding out she's pregnant. It seems as though Tibby knew she was going to die, based off of her letters and what she wrote in them, and the girls fear that they weren't there for Tibby when she needed them. Meanwhile, Lena starts to talk again with Kostos, only to find he's living with a woman named Harriett. Kostos' letters to Lena certainly seem to suggest that he still loves her, but Lena is too shy and insecure to do anything in return, and she worries over the woman he lives with. Carmen, meanwhile, struggles with preparations for her upcoming wedding, and wonders whether she should even go through with it. Bridget decides to go to Australia, to see if she can find Brian, or some answers as to why Tibby may have killed herself. Upon arriving in Australia, Bridget discovered that Tibby and Brian had a daughter, named Bailey, after's Tibby's old friend who died of cancer. Eventually, through reading more of Tibby's letters, they realize that she didn't kill herself, but that she was sick with Huntington's disease, and ended up drowning because she was too weak. Bridget ends up staying with Brian and Bailey in Australia for awhile, and takes care of Bailey. Carmen grows more and more tired of the acting business, and feels alienated from Jones. She takes a train to New Orleans for an acting audition, and on the way there meets a single father with two young children, who she bonds with. Carmen realizes that she doesn't really love Jones, and decides to break off her engagement. Even though she messes up her audition, she doesn't really care, and heads to an address Tibby gave everyone in Pennsylvania, to meet on a specific date. Lena, meanwhile, decides that she doesn't want to wait to see Kostos, who also got a letter from Tibby telling him to go to an address in Pennsylvania, and goes to London to meet him, only h's not there. At first, Lena thinks he isn't interested, but then he calls her and she discovers that he was looking for her in the States, while she searched for him in London. She takes a flight back to the States, and they reunite at the airport, finally kissing each other, and admitting their love. Bridget, who was at first very hesitant about her pregnancy and was considering aborting it, realizes after spending time with Bailey how much she loves and wants this baby which is rowing inside her. She calls Eric and tearfully asks him to meet her in Pennsylvania. Eric arrives, and Bridget tells him they're having a baby, to which Eric responds, "This is something I want. This is something I've always wanted." Carmen, Lena and Kostos arrive, and meet Bailey, each of them shocked over Tibby's daughter. Brian tells them that Tibby chose this farm in Pennsylvania not just for her, Brian and Bailey, but for her friends to stay as well. Bridget and Eric, Lena and Kostos and Carmen all stay for awhile at the farm in Pennsylvania, helping to take care of Bailey, and helping each other heal from the loss of Tibby. Several months later they hold one last pants ritual, that Tibby was going to hold before she died. Although it wasn't quite the way they imagined, Tibby did bring them back together, and the story ends with them all staying in Pennsylvania. Carmen, ready to face her future with a fresh start, Lena and Kostos in love and finally together, and Eric planning on transferring law firms, so Bridget can stay in Pennsylvania, raise animals, grow vegetables, and have her baby grow up alongside Bailey. The Sisterhood is back together once more, and even though things are far from perfect, with the loss of Tibby, they know they can move on and enjoy what Tibby left behind for them.

Characters edit see section history

  • Tibby Rollins: Arranges to get the sisterhood back together. Loves Brian, lives in Australia.
  • Lena Kaligaris: An artist, teaching in Rhode Island, she still thinks of Kostos and constantly thinks about her past decision to stop seeing him. Quiet, reserved.
  • Carmen Lowell: Is a moderately successful actress in New York, engaged to a man that can help her career greatly. Very loud and proud and out there.
  • Bridget Vreeland: Lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, feels just as restless as she did when she was a teenager. Moves a lot.
  • Brian: Lives with Tibby in Australia, where he manages a software company. Loves Tibby
  • Bailey: The name of one of Tibby's friend's who died in book 1, and a new character in this story has her name.
  • Kostos Dounas: Though he no longer sees Lena, he comforts her when tragedy strikes. He is now rich and famous, lives in London and from the part of Greece that Lena's grandparents were from.
  • Eric: Lives with Bridget in San Francisco, where he works for a law firm. Was the guy she met in the very first book at soccer camp in Baja, New Mexico. Loves Bridget.
  • Jones: Carmen's fiancé, who works in show business. He is a producer. Bald. Carmen's friends think he's a jerk.
  • Effie Kaligaris: Lena's younger sister, who is Lena's opposite in every way. She's a star journalist, and has a tumultuous relationship with Lena.
  • Alice Rollins: Tibby's mother.
  • Clara: A baby that Carmen met on the train. Son of Roberto and sister of Paolo.
  • Pablo: A child that Carmen met on the train. Son of Roberto and brother of Clara.
  • Roberto: A man Carmen meets on the train, who helps her realize her true destiny.
  • Lydia: Carmen's step-mom.
  • Paul: Carmen's step-brother.
  • Krista: Carmen's step-sister.
  • Ryan: Carmen's little brother.
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  • “She'd thought her hair would fade a bit as she got older, but it hadn't. It was her mother's hair, her grandmother's hair, her bittersweet birthright; she wouldn't get rid of it that easily.”
    (about Bridget)
  • “...she began questioning everything she had done. She tried to identify the moment when she'd done the worst wrong. It often happened without clear warning.”
  • “She didn't know what she'd find where she was going. She didn't even know what she was looking for. It was a long way to go for nothing.”
    (about Bridget)
  • “Last time she had worn fear. And this time she was crazy.”
    (about Lena)
  • “Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”
    Tibby (in a letter to Lena)
  • “Bridget didn't suffer from those ailments that picked at you over a lifetime, like allergies or acne, dandruff or a sore back, floaters in your eyes or lust for food that made you fat. She went straight to the hard-core stuff, the rough waves in the gene pool, like the depression so severe it had taken her mother's life. Sometimes she felt the outside of her have a very incomplete account of the inside of her.”
    (about Bridget)
  • “Bridget lay awake, but she wasn't restless. There weren't as many places to go as there were thoughts to think.”
    (About Bridget)
  • “I had seen birth and death, but had thought they were different.”
    T.S. Elliot
  • “...and Lena drew in the familiar stimuli: Bridget's peppermint shampoo, the delicate sponge-cake texture of her skin against Lena's cheek, Carmen's grapefruit-scented hair junk and sticky lips. The smells on them were deeper, the colors brighter, than on other people.”
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  • She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she’d forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
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  •              —Winston Churchill
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  • I’ll let you be in my dreams                         if I can be in yours.       —Bob Dylan
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First Sentence edit see section history

Once upon a time there were four pregnant women who met in an aerobics gym.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue

Chapters 1-30

Epilogue

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 5 of 6 in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. (standard series)

Preceded by Forever in Blue.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Ann Brashares (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 14, 2011
ISBN: 978-0385521222
Page Count: 369

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3602.R.385S57 2011
  • Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Contains some innapropriate language and relationships; nothing is very detailed though. I think that a young adult, especially if they read the first four books, would be able to handle this book.

Books That Influenced This Book edit see section history

   
  • Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
  • The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
  • Girls in Pants
  • Forever in Blue

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