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I See You Everywhere

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A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year

Julia Glass, the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes, returns with a tender, riveting book of two sisters and their complicated relationship.

Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful: the one who yearns for a good marriage, an artistic caree...more

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Published July 14th 2009 by Anchor (first published January 1st 2008)

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Dec 24, 2008 H rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It seems you really like Julia Glass or you really don't, judging from other reviews. I fall into the really likes group. I inhaled this book, a series of snapshots told alternately by two sisters. I find Glass's characters believable and layered, and her short story-like style suits my taste. It helps that this book is about one of the themes I find most fascinating - the inability to really live outside ourselves and understand others as more than who they are in relation to ourselves, and the...more

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Oct 29, 2008 Jen rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was very, very disappointing. I enjoyed both her previous books immensely, but I just couldn't go where this book was trying to take me. Firstly, the book is set up almost like a collection of connected short stories, and I'm not really a fan of short stories, so perhaps that's why my initial reaction wasn't positive. But I stuck with it and began to find myself invested in this tale of two sisters, even though the prose seemed mostly distant and cold...and then the book takes this rad...more

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Jul 10, 2011 Stephanie (Stepping out of the Page) rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This is why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. The cover and title seemed very interesting to me, but this book was anything but. From the very start of this book, I just found it dull and I couldn't get into it. Though it did get a little more interesting around the midway point, it was still nothing captivating. I found the writing to be a little erratic, like the author was just moving from one event to the other, disregarding anything else - I felt the same with the two sisters relatio...more

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Nov 13, 2008 LARRY rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I really tried to like this book since it was written by Julia Glass. I've heard so much about Glass and "The Three Junes". However, I just could not connect to this story.

*I See You Everywhere* is about 2 sisters, who have grown apart through the years. Yet, they remain in touch or even visit, especially during tragic events. Louisa, the elder sister, is the stable one with a rooted job and a consistent love interest. Chem, the other one, travels the world,...more

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Feb 07, 2010 Emily rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I appreciated how this book honestly portrayed the complexity of relationships between sisters. Rather than presenting sisters who are best friends, who talk all of the time, etc., this book delves into the ups and downs, jealousies, regrets, and love/hate behaviors that characterize most sibling relationships over the course of a lifetime. The book begins in 1980, when Clem and Louisa are in their 20s, and spans the course of 25 years (chapters jump ahead one, five, and 10 years). Each chapters...more

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Oct 03, 2009 Liza rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved Three Junes so so much, that I've wanted to love everything else JG has written. This novel isn't as awful as her second one, but it is also disappointing in a similar way: it feels naive and pat. Although compelling enough that I finished it, and very occasionally touching, mostly it's facile and simplistic in its descriptions and themes of "nature" "science" and "wild animals", and the characters seem too credulous, their lives ingenuously perfect--even in their experience of despair,...more

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Oct 25, 2008 Miriam rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this in two days. I really adore Julia Glass' writing style.It's so smooth and full of beauty. I was surprised to see that the pieces in the book had originally been published as stories in other places, because they feel so cohesive. The only peeve I have with it, which is why it doesn't get 5 stars is that the first chapter has these really annoying POV shifts between the two sisters, both are in first person and the name of one of the characters is, bothersomely, Clement. So it is real...more

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May 16, 2013 Sinclair rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I really disliked this book. While I did grow to like the sisters somewhat by the end, I can't say this story is one I was sorry to see finally finished. Some books grab you and make you want to crawl in and live with the characters in their world forever. This was definitely NOT one of those.

This book was told in a series of vignettes through the alternating voices of two sisters. I found the execution of this style very disorienting. It was like being an amnesiac and having to piece together t...more

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Mar 23, 2013 Amanda rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I hardly remember anything about Three Junes, except that I absolutely loved it. That feeling, the depth to which I loved it, has stuck with me, even though the plot has not.

I think, five years from now, I will have the opposite impression of I See You Everywhere -- I won't remember how I felt about it, because honestly I'm not even sure how I feel about it now. But I will remember the story, and that twist at the end, and how it felt like a punch in the stomach (a really well executed punch in...more

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Sep 12, 2011 Knitme23 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This really should go between "really liked it" and "it was amazing". Glass did a lovely job with this book, developing two characters through several long chapters/interlinked stories and making me care about both of them, softening the pricklier character realistically and beautifully, and creating an ending both possible and surprising at the same time. She simply does people well, with the same warmth that Barbara Kingsolver has when she describes her characters. I highly recommend this, tho...more

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Aug 30, 2011 Charity rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was thrilled when I saw this book at the library, and snatched it up. This was one of the first books I borrowed with my NYPL library card, and is definitely a worthy book. This book is incredible- once again, Julia Glass manages to bring such depth to her characters. This time around, her main characters are two sisters who have almost nothing in common except for the fact that they are related and they love each other. This book alternates between the sisters’ point of views and spans over a...more

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Jun 09, 2010 Denise rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

3.0 out of 5 stars 3.5 stars for this moving novel about the connection between sisters..., November 18, 2009

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This is a convoluted but well-written novel about the nature of a relationship between sisters and the capriciousness of life.

Two sisters -- as dissimilar as "chocolate and seaweed" -- grow up and go their separate ways into adulthood. One sister works in the promotion and critique of art and the other is a free-spirited biologist who...more

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May 26, 2010 Stephanie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. My older daughter was given a book as a present on her little sister’s birthday, Big Sister and Little Sister, by Charlotte Zolotow, that I find a little hard to read right now. It tells the story of a big sister who always took care of her little sister and always told her what to do and always comforted her when she cried. I myself am a big sister, but I don’t have a little sister. I have a little brother. Nonetheless, the parallels still apply. One day, the little sister, tired of being told...more My older daughter was given a book as a present on her little sister’s birthday, Big Sister and Little Sister, by Charlotte Zolotow, that I find a little hard to read right now. It tells the story of a big sister who always took care of her little sister and always told her what to do and always comforted her when she cried. I myself am a big sister, but I don’t have a little sister. I have a little brother. Nonetheless, the parallels still apply. One day, the little sister, tired of being told what to do, runs away and hides in the meadow among the tall grass. The big sister looks for her and cannot find her, even though the little sister is right there – close enough to touch. The big sister, devastated, starts to cry. Finally, the little sister reaches out and comforts her big sister.

The reason I find this book so hard to read is that my little brother, at age 33, has run away from us, from our family, just as surely as that little sister did. And I keep waiting for him to step out and reveal himself from among the tall grass, and comfort me – who is missing him so much. (Thank God for Facebook; based on his status updates and the very occasional text message, I do know he’s alive).

And so if I can barely bear to read this sweet children’s book with its happy ending, is it any wonder that I could hardly stand to finish Julia Glass’s I See You Everywhere? Ms. Glass tells the story of two sisters over a time span of many years. The big sister, Louisa, like me, is steady and plodding. The little sister, Clem, like my little brother, is a little wilder and less focused. And Clem, for reasons that Louisa does not know but tries to imagine, to figure out, and to articulate, chooses to kill herself at age 33.

We read books for many reasons: we seek entertainment, solace, instruction, mystery, and wonder. We read books because we’re made to, whether that compulsion be inwardly or outwardly directed. I can harp on characterization, plot, or writing style as much as I want, but when it really comes down to it the subject matter matters. And so, missing my little brother and fervently hoping he will come home to us, I cannot like, I cannot enjoy Ms. Glass’s I See You Everywhere, nor can I be objective enough to judge whether this is a very good or a very bad book.

All I can do is frantically page through the last two chapters and try to piece together clues from Clem’s suicide as to whether my brother will come home, that is, to treat this novel, written by a woman who has never met me or my brother, as an instruction manual for my life. Like Louisa, who composed her own litany: “Clem was brilliant, she was accomplished, she was passionate, she was loved, but she was …ill,” I run through my brother’s characteristics and history and try to imagine, to comprehend, why he has run away from us and to guess whether he will come home. That is our province: Louisa’s and mine. What with Clem’s death, and my brother’s silence, “the last word is mine, and it is a gift.”

And so with my last word, with my gift, I choose to believe that my brother will come home. I choose to use E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End as the instruction manual for my life, rather than I See You Everywhere. There, too, is the story of two sisters. The older sister, Margaret, is steady and plodding like me and Louisa. The younger sister, Helen, is a little wilder and less focused, like my brother and Clem. Helen runs away from her family the same way that my brother has done: refuses to see her family, sends only the briefest and most unsatisfying of notes. It turns out, of course, that Helen, a young unmarried woman in Edwardian England, had gotten herself pregnant. Knowing that she would not be accepted in society, nor yet by her sister Margaret’s husband, Helen chose instead to absent herself and planned to live in Germany after the baby was born. Owing to a happy confluence of most unhappy incidents, Helen and the baby end up living with Margaret and her husband – not welcome in society, perhaps, but loved and embraced by her family. “All over the world men and women are worrying because they cannot develop as they are supposed to develop. Here and there they have the matter out, and it comforts them. Don’t fret yourself, Helen. Develop what you have; love your child….Don’t you see that all this leads to comfort in the end? It is part of the battle against sameness. Differences – eternal differences, planted by God in a single family, so that there may always be colour; sorrow perhaps, but colour in the daily grey.”

Maybe my brother is worrying because he cannot develop as he is supposed to develop; he has no degree, no career, no spouse nor child, but he shouldn’t fret. He and I are different, sure, but we’ve been planted by God in a single family so that there may always be colour. He is a beloved son, beloved brother, beloved uncle, beloved nephew, beloved cousin, beloved grandson, and beloved friend to many, many people. And so I hope that my brother has the sense enough to realize it and come home.
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Jan 03, 2010 Belinda rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I really liked Julia Glass's first two novels -- the characters touched me, the storylines were engaging. However, something went terribly awry with this book. It's like Julia was kidnapped by Jodi Picoult, spoonfed some kind of noxious character-withering pablum, and then released to finish up this book while still in some state of disorientation.

This is to say, "I See You Everywhere" was churning along OK until one horrible twist in the storyline. You've had this happen, I'm sure. You're readi...more

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Dec 17, 2009 S rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I had really liked Julia Glass's first book "Three Junes" so when I saw this book on the shelf of my local library (which by the way is where I get ALL my books), I enthusiastically grabbed it. This is the author's third novel and I had not heard anything about it.

The story is about the relationship between two very different sisters each told in their own voices over the course of twenty years. This intrigued me and I thought it would be a study on how sisters can be different but close but it...more

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Aug 26, 2009 Evelyn rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm a sucker for Julia Glass, though I do think her books are really just high-end chick lit. But her writing is so clear and simple, and ultimately so engaging. And though I've found her books uneven (really liked Three Junes, wasn't all that impressed with The Whole World Over), I generally walk away satisfied, or at worst, entertained. Her writing reminds me in some way of Laurie Colwin. Perhaps it's that Glass (like Colwin) writes mostly about urban, well educated, financially secure (ok sec...more

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Jul 13, 2009 Linda rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In her novel Julia Glass explores the lives and the interrelationship of two sisters over a period of twenty years, picking up the story when the two women are in their early twenties. Chapters alternate between the first person voice of each sister, capturing the point of view of Louisa and Clem, as the author fleshes out the character and growth of each of the sisters, each woman choosing totally different lifestyles and yet the bond of sisterhood and connective thread remains.

I enjoyed the st...more

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Jun 06, 2009 Pam rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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May 25, 2009 Christine rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The best indicator of a good writer is someone who upon telling a story can cause the reader to suspend belief that the characters who inhabit the book are mere fiction. For me, “I See You Everywhere” did just that. I can honestly say that at one point while reading the book, I actually began to cry, and I can’t remember the last time a book had that impact on me! It may not have the same driving emotional force on everyone, but Glass’s powerful storytelling will engage you and deliver.

While “Th...more The best indicator of a good writer is someone who upon telling a story can cause the reader to suspend belief that the characters who inhabit the book are mere fiction. For me, “I See You Everywhere” did just that. I can honestly say that at one point while reading the book, I actually began to cry, and I can’t remember the last time a book had that impact on me! It may not have the same driving emotional force on everyone, but Glass’s powerful storytelling will engage you and deliver.

While “Three Junes,” Glass’s award winning first novel, was a smashing success, this book may be quieter but more revealing, more vibrant with the core of what makes us each human. The two main characters of the story are sisters: Louisa, the older more serious sister, a potter who becomes the editor of a tony art magazine in New York, and Clem (Clement), the rebellious younger sister who gives her life over to the study of animals in the wild, leading her own life of reckless abandon.

The two sisters could not be more different. They’re opposites in most aspects of their lives: who they are (one careful, one wild), what they love (one art, one animals), what they want (a loving marriage, a life free of commitment), and how they cope (one self destructs with accidents, one gripes and complains). They love each other, but they rarely get along. This is what families are: unconditional love and competition, joy and heartache, two sides of the coin that makes a life worth experiencing.

Some readers may not like the format of the novel, but it worked perfectly for me. The storytelling alternates between the two sisters’ points-of-view over a span of 20 years. What this enables author Julia Glass to do is show the arc of the family’s relationships and the growth of these two people from girls to women, yet still leave them wondering when they will feel “grown up.” Do any of us ever reach that stage? The plot may seem disjointed but do any of our lives run a smooth course?

It is the unevenness, the bumpy spots in the wilderness road that speak to the heart of this relationship, this story. Glass has written a novel that speaks to the essence of life and all its crushing heartache, all its wild joy. You can’t ask for more from an author.
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May 04, 2009 Jane rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was a choice for our local book club, so I dutifully read it. I'm not sure it's one I would have been wild about reading if it were not for the necessity of doing so. Author Glass has some good moments (she's an award winner for a previous book that I have not yet read), but at times the writing seemed a bit "clunky" to me, and after awhile, the vast numbers of Clem's boyfriends became hard to keep track of. Clem and her older sister, Louisa, make their way through life with Clem as the wil...more

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Jan 19, 2013 Jean rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

One reviewer noted that the chapters of this book seemed like individual short stories; that's probably the most positive spin one could put on this book. The early chapters seemed discontinuous, with the chapters told alternately in the voice of one of the two sisters, Clem and Louisa. The very first chapter, and a rather boring one, seemed to have little to do with the rest of the book. What was all that about the sisters' family tree, the great-aunts, Great-Aunt Lucy and her coveted cameo? Af...more One reviewer noted that the chapters of this book seemed like individual short stories; that's probably the most positive spin one could put on this book. The early chapters seemed discontinuous, with the chapters told alternately in the voice of one of the two sisters, Clem and Louisa. The very first chapter, and a rather boring one, seemed to have little to do with the rest of the book. What was all that about the sisters' family tree, the great-aunts, Great-Aunt Lucy and her coveted cameo? After a couple chapters, this storyline was not mentioned again-- until the very end, when the author inserted a mention of Great Aunt Lucy that had no effect on the story ending.

Each chapter seemed like a non-sequitir from the preceding one. The sisters were always in a different place, in a different situation, with different love interests that hadn't flowed from the previous chapter. At the beginning of each chapter, I'd have to say 'huh?' Did I miss something? Was I supposed to know that? The author took her time setting it all straight. It seemed to me the author had little regard for the reader's sense of following a story.

About halfway through the book, the chapters were spaced closer together in time, and thence began a storyline I could follow more easily. although in chapter "Coat of Many Colors" the first page talks about a 'machine' Louisa is having a 'relationship' with. Several pages later, it turns out-- oh, she's undergoing radiation treatments. Of course, no previous mention of an illness; this was all to come later. And another frustrating chapter beginning earlier: Clem has amnesia and is in the hospital; a mysterious stranger comes into her room with roses. Clem has no idea who he is; neither does the reader. And the explanation is interrupted by side comments on the doctor, Clem's mother's visit, etc. Plus the mystery is made more unclear to the reader, when the stranger is identified as Barney, although his real name is Larney. I wondered-- typos? There was really no excuse for all this befuddlement on the reader's part.

I do admit to reading to the end, although skimming many paragraphs that seemed extraneous, totally unnecessary. I'm still not sure what this story was all "about." The writer could have had several theme in mind. I think this book could have done better with more editing.(less)

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Dec 27, 2009 Jill rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: did-not-finish

I liked "Three Junes" when I read it, but couldn't finish "The Whole World Over." Halfway through "I See You Everywhere" I started skimming, and stopped reading altogether when I got to, oh, the twist.

The vignette format was jarring and it was often not apparent which sister was narrating which story. While the dates assigned to the vignettes suggested that the sisters were aging, they never seemed to actually learn anything or gain any insight into themselves or anyone else, making them very st...more I liked "Three Junes" when I read it, but couldn't finish "The Whole World Over." Halfway through "I See You Everywhere" I started skimming, and stopped reading altogether when I got to, oh, the twist.

The vignette format was jarring and it was often not apparent which sister was narrating which story. While the dates assigned to the vignettes suggested that the sisters were aging, they never seemed to actually learn anything or gain any insight into themselves or anyone else, making them very static characters. It seemed like Glass had just taken stick figures and assigned attributes (and men) to them: Clem is wild! Louisa is, um, not! Louisa is married! Now she's left her husband! Now she's back with him! Why'd she go back? Who knows? I just didn't get any sense of anyone's motivations. It's like all these objects and men and settings and pastimes were supposed to add up to larger Literary or Poetic meaning, but it just didn't happen.

And so many of the vignettes go nowhere: what was the point of Aunt Lucy's secret (which I'd assumed, not unreasonably I don't think, would have something to do with the rest of the book)? Of Tighty's stealing the dogs? Of Clement's amnesia? At one point, later in the book, Clem muses about all the kitchens she's cooked in with men over the years. The paragraph closes with the question: "How much spaghetti, [she wondered:], have I shared with how many men?" (p. 198) So, was the spaghetti supposed to be, like, a metaphor, a stand-in for some part of herself? Or something, anything, beyond just... spaghetti? And if it was meant to be meaningful, why isn't it developed at all? Why use all the mishmash of image categories -- food! animals! art! venerable Southern family heritage! illness (amnesia, yet)! -- if you aren't going to develop those images or connect them with anything?

Also, one mistake that made me crazy (especially given the current of foodiness running through the book: the Girl Scouts do NOT sell cookies called "Samosas." The term was used several times. They're called "Samoas"... unless the implication is that the Girl Scouts had branched out into savory Indian food. (And again, what's the point of focusing for that moment on those cookies? You could do so many interesting things literarily with a box of Girl Scout cookies, all gone to waste... mmm.... Samoas...)(less)

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May 07, 2012 Laurian rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: girlie, fiction

Sadly, this was a book given to me almost 4 years ago that I still hadn’t read. One year Edgardo, my loving husband, told people that if they wanted to get me a gift for my birthday to get me a copy of their favorite book. I read many of them years ago, but I still have a small stack left to read. This was one of them that I had been putting off because it looked so... middle-age-ladyish. That isn’t to say that middle-age-ladyish books aren’t good, just that they tend to be romantic and about th...more Sadly, this was a book given to me almost 4 years ago that I still hadn’t read. One year Edgardo, my loving husband, told people that if they wanted to get me a gift for my birthday to get me a copy of their favorite book. I read many of them years ago, but I still have a small stack left to read. This was one of them that I had been putting off because it looked so... middle-age-ladyish. That isn’t to say that middle-age-ladyish books aren’t good, just that they tend to be romantic and about the beach. It is the same reason I don’t read anything by Nicholas Sparks - not that the books aren’t good, just that they look so much about things that aren’t real to me.

Anyway - less about what this book isn’t and more about what it is. And, the answer to that riddle is that it was surprisingly good. I say that because I’d never even heard of Julia Glass before (pen name, I think so). Yet, the writing was clear, the characters beautiful conveyed, and there were hardly any beach scenes at all.

The book follows two sisters through about 20 years of their lives - starting when they are still in their twenties. The author switches narration between the two sisters to show how the same events can be perceived by two different people, and also how the “bonds of sisterhood” affect and echo off of each other. Basically, the book plays off of the time honored stereotype of competing sisters. One sister is an over-educated artist turned writer and the other is a rolling stone naturalist who travels the world studying animals.

While the plot is a bit cliche, it was great to see how the two people defined each other through their relationship to each other. While the characters were sisters, you saw how their interactions extended past familial relations to something special.

I don’t have a sister. I have a brother who I adore and miss too much. We didn’t compete the same way these sisters were portrayed to (e.g., for men). Yet, I still found the book lovely... if a bit like a cucumber sandwich. (less)

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Aug 15, 2010 Diane Webber-thrush rated it 4 of 5 stars

I was waiting for this to come out in paperback because I loved Julia Glass's Three Junes . . . and then when it did, I almost couldn't bring myself to buy the edition because of the totally creepy photograph of the two girls with their hair braided together. As a mother of identical twins, maybe I'm overly sensitive to ideas about two people being perceived as one but having read it now, the creepy picture doesn't fit the story anyway.
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Aug 17, 2009 Jo rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The author chose to write this book in the viewpoint of both sisters. Louisa has a passion for art and Clem the same passion as a guardian of wildlife. Ordinarily, I find reading a book that has more than one viewpoint very confusing and disjointed. However, Julia Glass manages to pull this technique off. The viewpoints are separated into segments and Glass mentions the other sister in the first couple of paragraphs so you know which character you are following.
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Jun 25, 2009 Ladan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Beautifully written in terms of uncommon, interesting imagery. About the hidden self and the search for meaning and validation of ourselves in others. I enjoyed the back and forth of the perspective of sisters growing together (and apart). I think there could have been more of a personality difference in the narratives given that the two women were so unidentical. But somehow their tones sounded similar. Not sure if this was intended.

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Dec 26, 2008 Michelle rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Jun 01, 2010 Kristin (Kritters Ramblings) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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What a book! A powerful and insight book into the struggles between sisters. Being a half of a sister pair, I am the older one, but our lives and roles have changed throughout the years - even by the week. We have each had to take a back burner to the other in our parents eyes when our lives have been up or down. We have shared in the joy and the pain of each other's life circumstances. I believe that sisters challenge each other more than any other relationship out there - you fight to be on to...more

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Mar 14, 2009 Jess rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, multiple-pov, adult-fiction

The format it intriguing, switching back and forth between two sisters over the years, but it took me a few sections to figure out what was going on. We get each sister's perspective on a certain point in time, each moment has well-drawn minor characters and usually a strong sense of setting, and Louisa and Clem both manage to be sympathetic and flawed at the same time. But then we jump forward in time, and we rarely meet those characters again, and things are often left unresolved from one poin...more

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Nov 09, 2010 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

What did I think? Good question. I finished this today. Normally I will give myself a couple of days at least to ponder what I want to say on this site about a story. This is another one of my book rental club selections. Once again I find myself wondering why I wanted to read this. My best answer to this quandary is that this is a story about the relationship between two sisters. I have two sisters and I think coming from that personal experience I was curious to see what this author had to say...more

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Julia Glass is the author of Three Junes , which won the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction, and The Whole World Over . She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her short fiction has won several prizes, including the Tobias Wolff Award and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Medal...more

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I See You Everywhere

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