I also found it interesting to see the two, sometimes conflicting, sometimes consistent view points on things as there are various points in the girls' past that both seek to tell the reader about. Can you imagine only being able to do what you want half of the time, and having to do what someone else wants when it's not your "turn"? It's a horrific thought to me, and so I really feel for the girls as they describe their different likes and interests, and how their sister literally has to come along for the ride. This book provides a fantastic lesson in tolerance as you quickly learn how much each twin has sacrificed for the other. Written mainly by Rose but with occasional inserts by Ruby, it is a fascinating story of two very un-normal people trying their hardest to lead a very normal life. The Girls is that book, a quasi-autobiography since it tells the story of two people, but their one shared life. Now approaching their 30th birthdays, and with a death sentence hanging over their conjoined heads, Rose has decided to tell the story of their life, from the girls' point of view for the first time. Joined at the head, abandoned by their birth mother, and the subject of constant fascination, the two have managed to live a remarkably normal life despite the soap opera that surrounds them. Where one goes, the other is right behind, and when one ceases to live, the other begins to die. As the oldest surviving craniopagus twins in history, Rose and Ruby are both a single being and two separate people at the same time. Not because she thinks her twin doesn't deserve to live on without her, but because she has no choice. Rose is dying, and she's taking her sister with her. "The Girls" is a touching, engaging and inspiring read about the life of a conjoined twin as articulated by the girls themselves.
|1 .Summary: A fascinating account of a world few readers would ever normally come across. |a At the approach of her thirtieth birthday, one of the world's oldest living craniopagus conjoined twins, bookish Rose Darlen attempts to pen her autobiography while remembering the joys and challenges of her life with sister Ruby, with whom she shares friendships in their small hometown. |a New York : |b Back Bay Books, |c 2007. |a The girls : |b a novel / |c Lori Lansens. |a OEI |b eng |c OEI |d BAKER |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d XY4 |d MIR |d GSC |d OCLCQ |d BDX |d TXBXL |d OCLCO |d GZD |d OCLCQ |d HEV
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