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Her, March 2013
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A memoir
Henry Holt
March 2013
On Sale: March 5, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 0805096531
EAN: 9780805096538
Kindle: B0091CEPF4
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A blazingly passionate memoir of identity and love: when
a charismatic and troubled young woman dies tragically, her
identical twin must struggle to survive Christa
Parravani and her identical twin, Cara, were linked by a
bond that went beyond siblinghood, beyond sisterhood, beyond
friendship. Raised up from poverty by a determined single
mother, the gifted and beautiful twins were able to create a
private haven of splendor and merriment between themselves
and then earn their way to a prestigious college and to
careers as artists (a photographer and a writer,
respectively) and to young marriages. But, haunted by
childhood experiences with father figures and further
damaged by being raped as a young adult, Cara veered off the
path to robust work and life and in to depression, drugs and
a shocking early death. A few years after Cara was
gone, Christa read that when an identical twin dies,
regardless of the cause, 50 percent of the time the
surviving twin dies within two years; and this shocking
statistic rang true to her. "Flip a coin," she thought,"
those were my chances of survival." First, Christa fought to
stop her sister's downward spiral; suddenly, she was
struggling to keep herself alive. Beautifully written,
mesmerizingly rich and true, Christa Parravani's account of
being left, one half of a whole, and of her desperate,
ultimately triumphant struggle for survival is informative,
heart-wrenching and unforgettably beautiful.
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