[bookshare-discuss] Re: just submitted...
- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger25@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:15:46 -0500
If I knew the first thing about validating a book, I'd snap it up. It looks
really great.
Shannon
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From: Brian Miller
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Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 5:40 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] just submitted...
Hello all,
I just submitted for validation an incredible novel.
Lori Lansens, The Girls, 2005.
A synopsis follows:
Conjoined twin sisters Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as "The
Girls." Raised by Aunt Lovey, the nurse who took them in after their mother
abandoned them, they have lived all their lives in the small town of Leaford,
in an old farmhouse bordered by cornfields. This is the story of their shared
life, two sisters who are ordinary in most respects but who have a relationship
of profound and unmatched intimacy. For Rose and Ruby are conjoined twins,
connected inseparably, facing the world side by side. The Girls is the
affecting chronicle of their incomparable life journey, a heart-rending story
of love between sisters. 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 with Ruby. From their awkward first
stepsRuby's arm curled around Rose's neck, her foreshortened legs wrapped
around Rose's hipsthis is an unmatched story of the most intense love
imaginable. 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 tellingtheir first loves, their
painful choices, losses, and triumphs -- but every experience is doubled,
sometimes joyfully and sometimes painfully.
The Girls charts the depths of a miraculous friendship, unsettling and
beautiful in its closeness. As the two stories parallel, diverge, and
intertwine, building to an unforgettable conclusion, Lansens aims at the heart
of human experience and the fundamental joy of intimacy.
I hope someone picks up this gem soon.
Brian Miller
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