While I wouldn’t say anything that happens is a twist or unexpected, I also don’t want to take away from another reader’s experience of watching this book unfold. This is a hard book to talk about without giving away some of the action. This always serves to illuminate the action and I never found it hard to follow. These perspectives are not always linear and while the story does move overall forward in time, it takes a loose approach, frequently going backwards so we can see the same timeline from a different sister’s point of view. Their varying perspectives show their unique viewpoints, even as they experience the same things. Their individual personalities emerge as the book moves between them. Two die from illness and one moves away from the village with her adopted siblings so that four sisters are left: Quiteria, Marina, Liberata, Basilissa. These 7 identical girls grow up in different households with their own parents and siblings but also inextricably linked together, knowing they are sisters. While two of the babies have died already, the servant decides to let the others live and finds them homes with women from the nearby village. Horrified by the act of giving birth to essentially a litter, she tells her servant woman to take the infants to the river. We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky – Emma Hooper (Penguin, 2022)Ī wealthy woman gives birth to 9 identical baby girls.
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