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Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, close friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins.
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. However the Darlens are special. Now nearing their 30th birthday, they are history's oldest craniopagus twins, joined at the head by a spot how big is a bread plate.
When Rose, the bookish sister, sets out to write her autobiography, it inevitably becomes the storyplot of her short but extraordinary life with Ruby, the beautiful one. Of their awkward first steps--Ruby's arm curled around Rose's neck, her foreshortened legs wrapped around Rose's hips--to the friendships they steadily build for themselves in the small town of Leaford, this is the profoundly affecting chronicle of 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 essential joy of simply living a life. That is a breathtaking novel, one that no reader will soon forget, a heartrending story of love between sisters.
