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Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

Literature & Fiction

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Audrey Niffenegger, a famous author of the extremely successful of The Time Traveler's Wife, publishes his second novel devoted to the life in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. After Elspeth Noblin passes away because of cancer, she passes her apartment in London to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina who live in America and with who she never met. Julia and Valentina only know that their mother had a twin sister. The girls live in the suburbs of Chicago and are almost like all American teenagers having little interest in college, job or anything else. The abnormal thing about them is that they are oddly attached to one other. Julia and Valentina move to their apartment and find out that now they are neighboring Highgate Cemetery. Closely they get to know other inhabitants of the building. Here they meet Martin, a wonderful and fascinating puzzle settler having crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder, Marjike, Martin's faithful but trapped wife, and Robert, Elspeth's ex-lover who investigate the cemetery. Julia and Valentina realize that Highgate is not fully dead and many things are alive there, perhaps their aunt is alive as well as they feel like she still stays in her apartment. Her Fearful Symmetry is a story about love and life that can continue even after death.

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...seldom spoke about that. Edie was an American now—she had gone native, or faux native; the Poole family lived in a suburb of Chicago that had pretended, from its inception, to be an English village. The twins had noticed that Edie’s accent tended to reappear when she was mad, or trying to impress someone. “Open it, ” said Valentina. Julia’s fingers fumbled with the stiff paper. She moved to the living-room window and Valentina followed her. Valentina stood behind Julia and put her chin on Julia’s shoulder and her arms around Julia’s waist. The twins looked like a two-headed girl. Julia raised the letter so Valentina could see it better. Julia and Valentina Poole99 Pembridge RoadLake Forest, IL 60035 USA Dear Julia and Valentina Poole, I regret to inform you of the death of your aunt, Elspeth Alice Noblin. Though she never met you, she was interested in your welfare. Last September, knowing that her illness would soon result in her death, she made a new will. I am enclosing a copy of...