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The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders Highgate Cemetery. They come to know the building's other residents. There is Martin, a brilliant and charming crossword puzzle setter suffering from crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder; Marjike, Martin's devoted but trapped wife; and Robert, Elspeth's elusive former lover, a scholar of the cemetery. As the girls become embroiled in the fraying lives of their aunt's neighbors, they also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including -- perhaps -- their aunt, who can't seem to leave her old apartment and life behind.

Niffenegger weaves a captivating story in Her Fearful Symmetry: about love and identity, about secrets and sisterhood, and about the tenacity of life -- even after death.]]> 498072 4.01 137679 21796 2009 3 0 true Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 01:09:47 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 02:46:15 -0700 2009
I love her writing and characters. However, I don't much like ghost stories (or time travel), and I c...more...]]>