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pellycan
Since: Nov, 2014
Illa
Since: Jan, 2013

You're my last hope, TV Tropes! My description is extremely vague, because it's been a very long time since I read this novel. Here goes a long shot:
It's an adult or YA novel (pretty sure it was an adult) about five or so sisters. I'm 93% certain it was magic realism. The author is a woman. The parents weren't around and/or dead, and the eldest sister got a Promotion to Parent very early on (possibly before the novel started). She worked, while the others were in high school and, I think, middle school. One of the sisters was rebellious, and one (probably the youngest) acted very dreamy. Butterflies might have played some kind of motif.
It was set somewhere in Europe.
Here's my only detailed memory of it: the oldest sister went out with a guy, a doctor, and at one point she decided to break her own hymen with a hairbrush handle so he would think she had some experience when they had sex. Yeah, I think that scene supplanted my memory of the title and author. Dangit, brain.
Edited by TaffyCat