The winter has been a tough one for Pauline and Arlene's family. Though only ten, the twin girls are old in too many ways: They know what it is to work to exhaustion, to be hamstrung by longing, to be blind with hate. Each is certain that the other has the easy life, but each discovers how wrong she is as this extraordinary debut novel unfolds.
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The winter has been a tough one for Pauline and Arlene's family. Though only ten, the twin girls are old in too many ways: They know what it is to work to exhaustion, to be hamstrung by longing, to be blind with hate. Each is certain that the other has the easy life, but each discovers how wrong she is as this extraordinary debut novel unfolds.
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