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A review by meganmilks
My Sister's Continent by Gina Frangello
5.0
immensely engrossing/disturbing. would not recommend to most people, but to those whom i would, i'd recommend it highly.
shelley jackson's Half Life rarely approaches the complexity of twin psychology that this book achieves. though Half Life is about conjoined twins, which is, yes, different than frangello's merely identical twins, jackson is all over the place and so smug with the metaphorizing of twin identity, it's overdone and too cerebral; frangello's twinning is visceral - and can't possibly be overdone bc the entire story is overdone but in the best way - like the french, bringin le drama.
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having read this twice now and really studied it in the interest of working it into a paper on pathologies and temporal drag, i bow down. really well crafted novel, and its production of pathology is hugely complicated and resists simplistic interpretation. there's no freudian reading that attempts to reduce incredibly complicated psychologies into one take. it's all a confusion. LIKE HUMANS! cue bjork.
shelley jackson's Half Life rarely approaches the complexity of twin psychology that this book achieves. though Half Life is about conjoined twins, which is, yes, different than frangello's merely identical twins, jackson is all over the place and so smug with the metaphorizing of twin identity, it's overdone and too cerebral; frangello's twinning is visceral - and can't possibly be overdone bc the entire story is overdone but in the best way - like the french, bringin le drama.
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having read this twice now and really studied it in the interest of working it into a paper on pathologies and temporal drag, i bow down. really well crafted novel, and its production of pathology is hugely complicated and resists simplistic interpretation. there's no freudian reading that attempts to reduce incredibly complicated psychologies into one take. it's all a confusion. LIKE HUMANS! cue bjork.