From the author of the bestselling Three Junes comes an intimate new work offiction a tale of two sisters together and apart told in their alternatingvoices ove... » 

From the author of the bestselling Three Junes comes an intimate new work offiction a tale of two sisters together and apart told in their alternatingvoices over twentyfive years. Louisa Jardine is the older one theconscientious student precise and careful the one who years for a goodmarriage an artistic career a family. Clem the archetypal youngest is therebel uncontainable iconoclastic committed to her work but not to the menwho fall for her daring nature. Louisa resents that the charismatic Clem hasalways been the favorite yet as Clem puts it On the other side of the fencemineevery expectation you fulfill . . . puts you one stop closer to that GrandCanyon rim from which you could one day rule the worldor plummet in very grandstyle. In this vivid heartrending story of what we can and cannot do forthose we love the sisters grow closer as they move farther apart. Louissettles in New York while Clem a wildlife biologist moves restlessly aboutuntil she lands in the Rocky Mountains. Their complex bond Louisa observes islike a double helix two souls coiling around a common axis joined yet nevertouching. Alive with all the sensual detail and riveting characterization thatmark Glasss previous work I See You Everywhere is a piercingly candid storyof life and death companionship and sorrow and the nature of sisterhooditself. From the Hardcover edition. «