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The girls [electronic resource] / Lori Lansens.
Now nearing thirty, Rose and Ruby are soon to be history's oldest conjoined twins, and Rose decides it is time to write the story of her short but extraordinary life. As Ruby watches Rose write her memoirs, she decides she wants to tell her part too; for though they are as close as two people can be, their lives and voices are wonderfully, powerfully distinct. Every experience of growing up comes rushing through in their telling-- their first loves, their painful choices, losses, and triumphs--but every experience is doubled, sometimes joyfully and sometimes painfully.
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- ISBN: 9780307371546 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307371549 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, and Co., [2006]
- Copyright: © 2006.
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| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Conjoined twins > Fiction. Abandoned children > Fiction. Young women > Fiction. Adoptees > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Electronic books. |
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LORI LANSENS was a successful screenwriter before writing her first novel, Rush Home Road, which was translated into twelve languages and published in fifteen countries. Her follow-up novel, The Girls, was an international success and was a Richard & Judy book-club pick in the UK, selling 300,000 copies. Her next book was The Wifeâs Tale, which became a national bestseller, as did her fourth novel, The Mountain Story, described in the Globe and Mail as a âfeat of storytellingâ of âalmost devastating emotional force.â Continuing the remarkable trend, her fifth novel, This Little Light, also became a national bestseller. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, Lansens now lives in California.
