![]() ![]() This book is the written equivalent of the last twenty minutes of “2001”-I’m sure *something* “deep” is going on, but I’m not sure what and mostly I just feel bored and nauseated. By the end, Nora and the novel have lost all touch with reality-which is fun except for the fact that it’s completely unreadable. Instead, it focuses on Nora’s childhood in the desert, where she had quirky, twisted adventures in the radioactive dunes. I really love the idea of having two brains and thus, two personalities and two sexualities to a body, but the book doesn’t explore this. Nora is uncomfortable sharing her body with her conjoined (but perpetually unconscious) twin, Blanche, so she resolves to get Blanche surgically removed. ![]() The book is set in a world very similar to our own, except with more nuclear explosions and a population of conjoined twins large enough to have their own lobby groups. ![]() This is the co-winner of the Tiptree this year, so I expected a lot more from it. ![]()
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