Sisterland Av Curtis Sittenfeld

<p><b>BY THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> AND <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <i>RODHAM and AMERICAN WIFE</i></b><br><i>''</i><b>A work of psychological genius'' <i>OBSERVER</i></b><br><b><i>_______________________________-</i></b><br><br>Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths.<br><br>Twenty years later Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children. Violet is single, and lives a much more flamboyant and eccentric life. Then one day Violet ignites a media storm by predicting a major earthquake in the St Louis area where they live. <br><br>As the day Violet has announced for the earthquake draws nearer, Kate must attempt to repair her fraught relationship with her sister, and to face truths about herself she has l