The Sisters Antipodes (Paperback)

When Jane Alison was a child, her family met another that seemed like its mirror: a father in the Foreign Service, a beautiful mother, and two little girls. The youngest girls from each family--one of them Jane--even shared a birthday.
With so much in common, the two families became almost instantly inseparable. Within months, affairs had ignited between the adults, and before long the pairs had exchanged partners--divorced, remarried, and moved on. As if in a cataclysm of nature, two families were ripped asunder, and two new ones were formed. Two pairs of girls were left in shock, a "silent, numb shock, like a crack inside stone, not enough to split it but inside, silently fissuring." And Jane and her stepsister were thrown into a state of silent combat for the affections of their absent fathers--a contest that, for one of them at least, would prove tragic.
Readers drawn to "The Glass Castle" will be moved by Alison's stunning emotional insight as she recounts the intimate devastations of family betrayal.

General

Imprint:	HarperPerennial
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	April 2010
Authors:	Jane Alison
Dimensions:	206 x 135 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-0-547-24773-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Biography > Literary Promotions
LSN:	0-547-24773-7
Barcode:	9780547247731

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