From the author of the best-selling Three Junes comes an intimate new work of fiction a tale of two sisters, together and apart, told in their alternating voices over twenty-five years. Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful the one who years for a good marriage, an artistic career, a family. Clem, the archetypal youngest, is the rebel uncontainable, iconoclastic, committed to her work but not to the men who fall for her daring nature. Louisa resents that the charismatic Clem has always been the favorite yet as Clem puts it, On the other side of the fencemineevery expectation you fulfill . . . puts you one stop closer to that Grand Canyon rim from which you could one day rule the worldor plummet in very grand style.
