Georgia Peachy Archer always thought she was happy with her choices in life: quitting college, marrying young, and raising two boys in the same small town where she grew up. But just as her life settles into a careful routine, her sister’s life begins to unravel.

Beth Archer chose a different life: a fancy apartment in Manhattan, impressive friends, and lots of money. She’s been on her own since she was a teenager, and she’s still on her own, outgrowing dresses and boyfriends faster than Peachy can inherit them. But on a visit home one weekend, Beth upends everything Peachy thought she knew about being happy.

In the tradition of Jennifer Weiner and Melissa Bank, The Almost Archer Sisters is a refreshingly honest portrait of sisterhood, motherhood, and female mayhem in its many states of grievance, grace, and forgiveness.