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Identical

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Beneath their perfect family faade, twin sisters struggle alone with impossible circumstances and their own demons until they finally learn to fight for each other in this poignant tour de force from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins.

Sixteen-year-old Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American familyon the surface. Underneath run very deep and damaging secrets. What really happened in the car accident that Daddy caused? And why is Mom never home, always running far away to pursue some new dream?

The girls themselves have become hopelessly divided over the years. Sick of losing Daddy's game of favorites, Raeanne turns to painkillers, alcohol, and sex to dull her pain her anger. Kaeleigh tries to be her father's perfect little flower, but being the misplaced focus of his sexual attention has her seeking control anywhere she caneven if it means cutting herself and unhealthy binge and purge eating.

Secrets like the ones the twins are harboring are not meant to be keptfrom each other or anyone else. Before long, it's obvious that neither sister can handle their problems alone, and one must step up to save the other, but the question iswho?

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Product Details
Margaret K. McElderry Books
1416950060 / 9781416950066
Paperback
21/12/2010
592 pages
127 x 178 mm, 390 grams