{"product_id":"9781742372679-secondhand-the-sisters-antipodes-a-memoir","title":"The Sisters Antipodes: A Memoir","description":"'(Alison's) haunting story is one that truly compels telling . Pointed and poignant, sprinkled with breathtaking intuitions . an act of bravery.' - Elle\n\nWhen Jane Alison was a child, her family met another that seemed like its mirror: a father in the Foreign Service, a beautiful mother, and two little girls, the younger two - one of them Jane - sharing a birthday.\n\nWith so much in common, the two families became almost instantly inseparable. Within months, affairs had ignited between the adults, and before long the pairs had exchanged partners - divorced, remarried, and moved on. As if in a cataclysm of nature, two families were ripped asunder, and two new ones were formed. Two pairs of girls were left in shock, a 'silent, numb shock, like a crack inside stone, not enough to split it but inside, quietly fissuring'. And Jane and her stepsister were thrown into a state of wordless combat for the love of their fathers. The sisters' contest, recounted by Jane Alison with stunning emotional insight, is waged throughout less-than-innocent childhoods - and ends in a tragedy that is at the same time unthinkable and inevitable.\n\n'Jane Alison writes about displacement, identity, belonging, fear, and, perhaps most incredibly, rivalry. She may have felt insecure as a child, but she's incredibly secure as a writer; and it's this strange mixture - precise and graceful descriptions of profoundly unsettling events - that underlies the alchemy of this book.' - Joan Wickersham, author of The Suicide Index\n\n'An incomparable personal story exquisitely, stunningly told.' - Kirkus Reviews\n\n'Enormously compelling . a truly unusual, harrowing journey of identity.' - Publishers' Weekly","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48888977359067,"sku":"9781742372679-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c1006f95-ba7b-469f-ac99-210c2f67ba66.jpg?v=1781791662","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781742372679-secondhand-the-sisters-antipodes-a-memoir","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}