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Twins: A Novel
Twins: A Novel
Twins: A Novel
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Twins: A Novel

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On the eve of their thirteenth birthday, identical twins Chloe and Sue agree to get matching tattoos to prove their bond is stronger than DNA. So begins Twins, Marcy Dermansky’s funny and disturbingly honest debut novel, the extraordinary story of blonde, beautiful twin sisters trying to survive adolescence and each other.

Over the course of five years, Chloe and Sue overcome breakups, unhappy Hawaiian vacations, unicycle lessons, eating disorders, pill abuse, and their first painful explorations of love and sex. Told in alternating voices, Twins introduces two new unforgettable heroines on the verge, in a spellbinding tale of teen angst, obsession, and redemption in the suburbs.

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Release dateMar 27, 2012
ISBN9780062206398
Twins: A Novel
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Marcy Dermansky

Marcy Dermansky is a MacDowell Fellow and the winner of the 2002 Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and the 1999 Story magazine’s Carson McCullers short story prize. Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including McSweeney’s, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Indiana Review. Dermansky is a film critic for About.com and lives in Astoria, New York.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    What? Is this a novel? A parable? An entry into a contest to describe the world's worst and most clueless parents? Worst sports book ever? Maybe, and this is being generous, a quirky story of coming of age under difficult circumstances. (Yes, its implausible, but for the sake of not being 100% negative, lets not bring that up.) For the record, I had read Marcy Dermansky's "Bad Marie" right before reading Twins. What a frustrating combination. Precious moments of good - spectacular writing just completely garbled by the odd completely unlikely events that happen to her main characters.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A very obvious 'first' novel that doesn't go exactly where you're it expecting it too.I had higher hopes in the first part that we might be getting something of a riot grrl renaissance, but that wasn't quite to be either. So - we have a perfectly good trope (good sister/bad sister)that brings to mind everything from Heathers to Sweet Valley high and see what happens to those 90's cliches in the 21st century. It wasn't what I was expecting, and it always refreshing to see a YA book about females that doesn't revolve around romance with boys.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A great read about teen issues of anorexica, bulimia, homosexuality, puberty and everything in between
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Wow. I found this book when browsing in Borders yesterday, and took it to work with me. My workmate is an identical twin herself, and we chatted a bit about that before I started reading, so I had some real life experiences to think about.This book is amazing. Told by two narrators - our twins Sue and Chloe - you're never confused about who's point of view you're looking at. The story begins with Sue - the younger and somewhat obsessive twin - convincing Chloe to get a tattoo for their thirteenth birthday. Once they have a tattoo, Sue thinks that they'll never be able to be apart again.The beginning felt reminiscent to Thirteen (the movie), with Sue the rebellious one, and Chloe following. But as the movie went through a number of years, things change, perfection is challenged and the girls are adopted/challenged by a number of friends. Meanwhile their parents pull away, separate from each other, then get back together - only to separate from their children.It's difficult to go into the wondrous details of this book - I swallowed it whole and it would probably serve some later readings. I couldn't see it as the black comedy it was billed as - I felt that the 'comedy' was just sad most of the time. There were a few 'first book' quibbles - but all in all an enjoyable read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Twins - Perfection isn't always as easy as it looks by Marcy Dermansky: the only English book I read this month. I picked it up in the bookstore and as I am always interested in Twin Stories (my sisters are twins) I decided to buy it. I expected another chick lit book, but I was sooo wrong. Twins is about identical twins Sue and Chloe, who try to grow up somehow in american suburbia. Their parents are distant, but rich, their brother is hostile and unfriendly. They only have each other and at one point, it does not work out anymore. Whatever relationship they had is threatened by other friends and influences and only hitting rock-bottom and living apart can actually bring them together again.Very black humour, extremly honest by looking behind peoples curtains and quite funny as well.

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