Unveiling Hidden Truths: A Sister’s Raw Journey Through the Brother Epistles
Reviewed by Kirtan Nautiyal
In her debut memoir Brother Epistles: A Sister’s Memoir (Split/Lip Press; June 2026), Dr. Shanda McManus reflects on a life without her younger brother Monir, who was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1992. It’s a luxury she didn’t afford herself at the time. Still close to a childhood in North Philadelphia marked by poverty and racism, she felt she had to be strong, not only for the rest of her family, but for herself, then grinding through the first grueling years of medical school. “Being strong meant no tears,” she notes, “but inside I churned and simmered like molten rock.”
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