by JuliaGlass (Author)
Louisa and Clem: two sisters who love each other more the further they move apart. Louisa Jardine is the elder one, the conscientious student, precise and careful, who yearns for a good marriage, a career in the arts, a family. Clem, the archetypal younger sibling, is the rebel: uncontainable, iconoclastic, committed to her work but not to the men who fall for her. Alternating between their voices, I See You Everywhere opens when the sisters are in their early twenties, still in the throes of mutual teenage wariness, and unfolds through their lives in a vivid, heart-rending story of what we can and cannot do for those we love.Louisa settles in New York while Clem, a wildlife biologist, moves restlessly about until she lands in the Rocky Mountains. Their complex bond, Louisa observes, is 'like a double helix, two souls coiling around a common axis, joined yet never touching'. Alive with the same sensual detail and riveting characterization that marks Julia Glass' previous novels, I See You Everywhere is a powerful and moving double portrait that reveals the very nature of sisterhood.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 05 Feb 2009
ISBN 10: 0091796989
ISBN 13: 9780091796983
Book Overview: The new book from the author of the National Book Award-winning Three Junes is a rich and devastating tale of two sisters. Together and apart, their alternating voices tell of their lives over a 25 year period.