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The Conjoined

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The Conjoined

De : Jen Sookfong Lee
Lu par : Sabryn Rock
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On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother's belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement she makes a shocking discovery - two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother's chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988: Casey and Jamie Cheng - troubled, beautiful, and wild teenage sisters from Vancouver's Chinatown. After six weeks they disappeared; social workers, police officers, and Jessica herself assumed they had run away.

As Jessica learns more about Casey, Jamie, and their troubled immigrant Chinese parents, she also unearths dark stories about Donna, whom she had always thought of as the perfect mother. The complicated truths she uncovers force her to take stock of own life.

Moving between present and past, this riveting novel unflinchingly examines the myth of social heroism and traces the often-hidden fractures that divide our diverse cities.

©2016 Jen Sookfong Lee (P)2017 ECW Press Fiction Fiction criminelle Fiction historique Littérature du monde Vie de famille

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"The mystery of how the girls died is not the book's main focus, but this captivating novel still moves with the pace of a thriller as it deftly fills in the gaps in the lives of several people, each fractured by horrors of their very own, joined as one in betrayal, trauma, and uncertainty." ( Publishers Weekly)
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This book is so well written. I loved so much discovering new aspects of that story through different point of views. So many layers and complexity like life is. I enjoyed it from the first minute to the last.

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