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An autumn's worth of travels hither and yon finally get acclaimed author and artist Audrey Niffenegger to Seattle. As close here as Vancouver back in October, she is welcome whenever she is here. She is here with Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner), her harrowing much-praised tale of twin sisters gone to see their late mother's twin sister in London. There, mysteries are many, in their unwrapping and unfolding. "Niffenegger slowly draws out the relationship between the indolent young twins in a strange dance that's alternately charming and sinister ... Their sisterly devotion sounds sweet until it seems suffocating, with a touch of incestuous frisson that would leave Edgar Allan Poe queasy ... keep the children away and dust off the Ouija board; you're about to make contact with something deliciously creepy." - Ron Charles, Washington Post. "Lovers of Niffenegger's past work [The Time Traveler's Wife] should rejoice. This outing may not be as blindly romantic as The Time Traveler's Wife, but it is mature, complex and convincing—a dreamy yet visceral tale of loves both familial and erotic, a search for the self in the midst of obsession with an Other." - Susann Cokal.
