Twins

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NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE
"Sometimes despairing, sometimes blacldy humorous, always engross^, and thoroughly original. A wonderful debut." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
^^^ their thirteenth birthday, identical twins Chloe ^^k-y m. \and Sue agree to get matching tattoos to prove their bond is stronger than DNA. So begins Twins, Marcy Dermansky's funny and disturbingly honest debut novel, the extraordinary story of blonde, beautiful twin sisters trying to survive adolescence and each other.
Over the course of five years, Chloe and Sue overcome breakups, unhappy Hawaiian vacations, unicycle lessons, eating disorders, pill abuse, and their first painful explorations of love and sex. Told in alternating voices, Twins introduces two new unforgettable heroines on the verge, in a spellbinding tale of teen angst, obsession, and redemption in the suburbs.
'Spectacular, weird, extraordinarily real, and funny in ways they don't have names for."
—Jerry Stah\,auihoroi... Tovább

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NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE
"Sometimes despairing, sometimes blacldy humorous, always engross^, and thoroughly original. A wonderful debut." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
^^^ their thirteenth birthday, identical twins Chloe ^^k-y m. \and Sue agree to get matching tattoos to prove their bond is stronger than DNA. So begins Twins, Marcy Dermansky's funny and disturbingly honest debut novel, the extraordinary story of blonde, beautiful twin sisters trying to survive adolescence and each other.
Over the course of five years, Chloe and Sue overcome breakups, unhappy Hawaiian vacations, unicycle lessons, eating disorders, pill abuse, and their first painful explorations of love and sex. Told in alternating voices, Twins introduces two new unforgettable heroines on the verge, in a spellbinding tale of teen angst, obsession, and redemption in the suburbs.
'Spectacular, weird, extraordinarily real, and funny in ways they don't have names for."
—Jerry Stah\,auihoroi Permanent Midnight
'Fiercely energetic heartbreakingly hilarious exhilarating____Dermansky has spun a
dual spell, capturing the inner world of twins and tapping into our basic human longing to keep those we love most from growing and changing." —Newsday
MARCY DERMANSKY is a MacDowell Fellow and the winner of the 2002 Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and the 1999 Story magazine's Carson McCullers short story prize. Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including McSweeney's, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Indiana Review. Dermansky is a film critic for About.com and lives in Astoria, New York.
HARPER
www.harpercollins.com
Cover design by Tina Pohle Cover illustration by Meryl Stebel Author photograph by Julie Dermansky Vissza