For the big sister, you can't choose anything; the little one is "given" to you. Whether she becomes a friend or a rival afterward is written in the stars, but it's also somewhat in our hands. For both women and men, a sister is often one of the most important people in life. The most beautiful stories about lifelong sisterly bonds by T. C. Boyle, Jane Austen, Benedict Wells, Jodi Picoult, Ian McEwan, Anna Gavalda, Jeffrey Eugenides, John Irving, Ali Smith, Daniel Glattauer, Vladimir Nabokov, Margaret Atwood, Richard Yates, Madeleine Bourdouxhe, and many others.