Lori Lansens, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-06902-1
Certain novels recall fairy tales. Their heroes are banished, repeatedly challenged, until finally, foes vanquished, they make their triumphant homecoming. Though it opens in 1978 in a Chatham, Ontario, trailer park, Lansens's poignant debut is...
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Lori Lansens, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (345p) ISBN 978-0-316-06903-8
Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later, the girls are cared
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Lori Lansens, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-06931-1
Lansens’s hopeful and gentle third novel (after The Girls
), opens in the same fictitious Ontario county as its predecessors, but the heroine’s journey takes her to a vastly different landscape, both literally and spiritually. In Leaford,
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Lori Lansens. Gallery, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8650-6
Lansens (The Girls) has written a colorful, adventurous wilderness survival novel. Wilfred “Wolf” Truly decides on his 18th birthday during the late 1970s to commit suicide by leaping off the cliffs of the California batholith known as Angel’s Peak.
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Lori Lansens, Author, Lolita Davidovitch, Read by, Stephanie Zimbalist, Read by , read by Stephanie Zimbalist and Lolita Davidovich. Hachette Audio $29.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-223-9
Some books translate so smoothly to audio that they seem meant to be read aloud, and this fictional autobiography of 29-year-old conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen is one such tale. Though joined at the head, "The Girls" have separate...
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