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Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins.
Little, Brown
May 2006
352 pages
ISBN: 0316069035
Hardcover
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Fiction | Literature and Fiction | Contemporary
Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known
simply as "the girls." They make friends, fall in love, have
jobs, love their parents, and follow their dreams. But the
Darlens are special. Now nearing their 30th birthday, they
are history's oldest craniopagus twins, joined at the head
by a spot the size of a bread plate. When Rose, the bookish sister, sets out to write her
autobiography, it inevitably becomes the story of her short
but extraordinary life with Ruby, the beautiful one. From
their awkward first steps--Ruby's arm curled around Rose's
neck, her foreshortened legs wrapped around Rose's hips--to
the friendships they gradually build for themselves in the
small town of Leaford, this is the profoundly affecting
chronicle of an incomparable life journey. As Rose and Ruby's story builds to an unforgettable
conclusion, Lansens aims at the heart of human
experience--the hardship of loss and struggles for
independence, and the fundamental joy of simply living a
life. This is a breathtaking novel, one that no reader will
soon forget, a heartrending story of love between sisters.
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