"From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world. It's been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and arcane rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father dies. An architect as cruel as he was revered, his...

As seen in the hit documentary Three Identical Strangers • “[A] poignant memoir of twin sisters who were split up as infants, became part of a secret scientific study, then found each other as adults.”—Reader’s Digest (Editors’ Choice)
WINNER OF A BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD
Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn’t until her mid-thirties...

A shocking murder forces a family to come to terms with its past Each of Lydia Seagrave's daughters is unhappy in her own way. Although a successful novelist, Daphne is professionally stunted and bored with her doctor husband. Her sister Kitty, the owner of a small California tea room, feels empty without a child. And Alex, the youngest, is a recent divorcée who is having trouble just paying her rent.   When the three girls return home for their...

Beth Luxenberg was an only child. Or so everyone thought. Six months after Beth's death, her secret emerged. It had a name: Annie. Steve Luxenberg's mother always told people she was an only child. It was a fact that he'd grown up with, along with the information that some of his relatives were Holocaust survivors. However, when his mother was dying, she casually mentioned that she had had a sister she'd barely known, who early in life had been put...

For decades, a well-to-do Baltimore family guarded a secret too painful to reveal, much less speak of among themselves. For one daughter, that secret would haunt her for years but ultimately compel her to take surprising risks and reap unbelievable rewards--the story of which forms the stunning narrative of this remarkable memoir. When Molly Bruce Jacobs, the family's eldest daughter, finds herself newly sober at the age of thirty-eight, she finally...

"Siostry Amy i Zoe dorastają w szczęśliwej rodzinie w Oklahomie. Są zdolne, inteligentne, otwarte na nowe wyzwania i... nierozłączne. Kiedy młodsza, Zoe, zaczyna chorować, uczą się i bawią w domu, dużo czytają i poznają nowe języki - Amy rosyjski, Zoe ukraiński. Amy fotografuje. Dziecięcy świat zderza się z dramatyczną diagnozą nowotworową Zoe. I wtedy siostry oddalają się od siebie. Amy dorasta zbyt szybko. Przeżywa tragedię...

This is the true story of Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein, who shared a personal history for more than three decades--and didn't know it. In her mid-30s, Schein finally decided to call an adoption agency to learn about her biological mother. Not expecting much, she instead got the surprise of her life. Her identical twin sister, Bernstein, lived just minutes away.