A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

"Dazzling...Full of surprises and satisfactions."
Chicago Tribune

"Hypnotic...richly realized characters and settings...Full of provocative reflections on the self and the ever-baffling mysteries of love and self."
Booklist

'The plot is driven (and achieves its suspense) by the mystery of Florence's disappearance and the possibility of solving the mystery...Schaeffer makes it all work smoothly, and the result is a highly readable novel."
Chicago Tribune

"A fascinating novel about the love/hate relationship of twins each obsessed with each other in very different ways."
Library Journal (starred review)

"Provides the emotional intensity Schaeffer's readers look for."
Kirkus Reviews

"Schaeffer is a seasoned risk-taker in imagining lives outside the framework of her own experience....With imaginative virtuousity, she illuminates the personality traits that make one twin resolve to be free of her mirror image and the other cleave to her sister....Schaeffer's beautifully inflected prose has an affinity with visual art; rich sensory details and vivid imagery give her sentences an almost tactile quality."
Publishers Weekly

"Fascinating."
San Francisco Chronicle

"Fromberg Schaeffer is a highly accomplished writer."
Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Susan Fromberg Schaeffer uses the notion of twinship to explore the psychological predicament of coming to terms with one's identity, an exploration that takes the form of a quasi-mystery story."
The Boston Globe