Description:
Agni and Effie, identical twins, are inseparable until Agni is sent to Greece one summer to visit their grandmother after their grandfather's sudden death. Until now the more conventional and accommodating of the two, Agni refuses to return to college, choosing instead to remain in their family's Greek village.
Review Quotes:
"A beautifully written, heartfelt story of twin sisters torn in different directions. This transporting and atmospheric novel asks an important question--how do we maintain our deep ties with family and history while also carving out new lives for ourselves? As Fountas shows, familial love is complex, often painful, and has the power to echo across thousands of miles and hundreds of years."
--Eowyn Ivey, Permafrost Prize judge and author of The Snow Child