Sister Mine

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Nalo Hopkinson: Sister Mine (2013, Grand Central Publishing)

346 pages

English language

Published Feb. 5, 2013 by Grand Central Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-4555-1773-2
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SISTER MINE

We'd had to be cut free of our mother's womb. She'd never have been able to push the two-headed sport that was me and Abby out the usual way. Abby and I were fused, you see. Conjoined twins. Abby's head, torso, and left arm protruded from my chest. But here's the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn't. Far as the Family was concerned, Abby was one of them, though cursed, as I was, with the tragic flaw of mortality.

Now adults, Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery to separate the two girls gave Abby a permanent limp, but left Makeda with what feels like an even worse deformity: no mojo. The daughters of a celestial demigod and a human woman, Makeda and Abby were raised by their magical father, the god of growing things--a highly unusual childhood that made them extremely close. …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, fantasy, general
  • Sisters, fiction
  • Missing persons, fiction