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Dual Citizens

June 4, 2019 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781487004866
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Description

From Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin comes an intimate and compelling novel of motherhood, love, a search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.

All her life, Lark Brossard felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliant pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally by Lawrence Wheelock, a filmmaker who is both Lark's employer and her occasional lover. When Wheelock denies her what she longs for most - a child - Lark is forced to re-examine a life marked by unrealized ambitions and thwarted desires. As she takes charge of her destiny, Lark comes to rely on Robin in ways she never could have imagined.

In this meditation on motherhood, sisterhood, desire, and self-knowledge, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complex path towards fulfillment as an artist and as a human being.

About this Author

ALIX OHLIN is the author of four books, including the novels Inside and Dual Citizens, which were both finalists for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Short Stories, and many other publications. Born and raised in Montreal, she lives in Vancouver, where she chairs the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia.

ISBN: 9781487004866
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
Published: 2019-06-04

Reviews

Touching . . . Dual Citizens has a lot in common with Zadie Smith's Swing Time and Claire Messud's The Burning Girl.

Fascinating and unexpected.

With supreme confidence, Ohlin's quicksilver prose and brilliant characterization at once seize and pull the reader into the wide-ranging and complex world of half-sisters Robin and Lark as they struggle with questions of identity, the slow burn of mental illness, and the need to leave your mark on the world. Her characters are as complex and real as your own dearest loved ones. Dual Citizens is a compulsively readable novel about family, sisterhood, and those uncontrollable forces that drive and haunt us.

Evocative ... Traces [its] characters over long arcs of time and place with equal amounts grace and wit.

If storytellers seduce not just with the tale but how they tell it, then Ohlin is exemplary.

Luminous ... Ohlin's touching, beautifully crafted story traces the unbreakable bond holding the sisters together, even when miles apart, through many changes.

Ohlin's prose and insight are luminous ... As with her prior novel, Inside, Ohlin is adroit at articulating her characters' internal dialogues, and it becomes apparent to the reader as it does to both women that they are at their most harmonious when connected to each other.

Alix Ohlin's gorgeously understated writing brings her characters to vivid, brilliant life, especially fiercely loyal and socially awkward Lark, who felt like someone we'd love to be friends with.

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