Quite a short and interesting story - quaint in some places and very easy to read.
It is set in Canada and although it is fiction it is written as if it's an autobiography of conjoined twins. The story is told in the words of both "The Girls" Ruby and Rose. The girls tell us with great emotion and feeling the story of their brief but full lives. The love they have for each other and their adoptive parents shines through but in a realistic way without too much sentimentality.
There are times when you see from each girl the frustration of their unique situation and you learn such a lot about each twin from the way the other talks about them. Their parents make life for them as ordinary as they can by love and example which allows the girls even after their deaths to continue to live lives that are in many ways fulfilled and, in others, empty and searching.
I found the need to tell their story very emotional and compelling but also a little sad that it was really futile and the one person for whom the story was written would never read and probably never should.
Even with dreams and hopes I believe the girls realise this a good way before the book ends. The characters feel real and they grow throughout the book. You learn their ancestry and see their goodness and faults. The scenery is well described giving you a sense of being there. You can picture their home, the fields and the kitchen on "Slovak Night". I don't think this was the book I expected when I started it, however it was not disappointing - it was thought provoking, funny in places, sad in others and a joy to read.
Conjoined Twins_ Twin Girls, A Medical Wonder by ifikhan20 Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/444960
It is set in Canada and although it is fiction it is written as if it's an autobiography of conjoined twins. The story is told in the words of both "The Girls" Ruby and Rose. The girls tell us with great emotion and feeling the story of their brief but full lives. The love they have for each other and their adoptive parents shines through but in a realistic way without too much sentimentality.
There are times when you see from each girl the frustration of their unique situation and you learn such a lot about each twin from the way the other talks about them. Their parents make life for them as ordinary as they can by love and example which allows the girls even after their deaths to continue to live lives that are in many ways fulfilled and, in others, empty and searching.
I found the need to tell their story very emotional and compelling but also a little sad that it was really futile and the one person for whom the story was written would never read and probably never should.
Even with dreams and hopes I believe the girls realise this a good way before the book ends. The characters feel real and they grow throughout the book. You learn their ancestry and see their goodness and faults. The scenery is well described giving you a sense of being there. You can picture their home, the fields and the kitchen on "Slovak Night". I don't think this was the book I expected when I started it, however it was not disappointing - it was thought provoking, funny in places, sad in others and a joy to read.
Conjoined Twins_ Twin Girls, A Medical Wonder by ifikhan20 Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/444960
