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...have anything to disclose with her previous novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, because even after numerous attempts I have not yet successfully traveled in time. But Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner; 406 pages) is about a pair of identical twins, Julia and Valentina, whose mother and aunt, Edwina and Elspeth, are also identical twins...
...knowledge, any great identical-twin novelists (though I think John Barth has a twin sister), and I have never yet read a fictional account of twinness that I found convincing, with one exception: Darin Strauss's excellent Chang and Eng, about Barnum & Bailey's famous Siamese twins. As Elspeth tells her lover Robert shortly before she dies, "You haven't got a twin, so you can't know how it is." Too right...
...missed: death. As an emergency nurse working in a city, I see countless women who arrive at the hospital - and die - after a home birth gone wrong. I fully support having a midwife-assisted birth, but it should be done within a hospital setting equipped to deal with emergencies. Elspeth McTavish, Toronto...
...emergency nurse working in a city, I see countless women who arrive at the hospital--and die--after a home birth gone wrong. I fully support having a midwife-assisted birth, but it should be done in a birthing center within a hospital setting equipped to deal with emergencies. Elspeth McTavish, TORONTO...
...Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Golnoush Niknejad, Logan Orlando and Elspeth Reeve...