![]() ![]() Lovey and Stash provide a stable and loving home for the girls as they grow to adulthood. The girls are raised by the nurse ‘Aunt’ Lovey, who refuses to see them as deformed or even disabled and her Slovakian husband (‘Uncle’ Stash). The girls are born in a small town outside Toronto, Canada, in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later. Ruby has foreshortened legs and has club feet so she relies on Rose to carry her around. ![]() Rose and Ruby are joined at the head and share a crucial artery but have separate brains. ![]() Ruby is not a reader or writer so she is initially a reluctant participant in the process but she soon comes to enjoy the writing process and it is through Ruby that we find out the reason why Rose embarked on the writing project. The chapters narrated by Ruby are written in diary entry format and printed in a different font and easily distinguishable in tone from Rose’s more literary contributions. She realized that she couldn’t write such a thing without the input from her conjoined twin so this is the fictionalized autobiography of both twins. Rose is an aspiring author with several published poems and short stories and she decided to write her autobiography after receiving important news. Lansens succeeds in the incredibly difficult task of creating not just 1 but 2 complex, interesting, believable and captivating central protagonists. In the novel The Girls by Lori Lansens we follow the lives of craniopagus conjoined twins Rose and Ruby. ![]()
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