![]() ![]() ![]() Kaeleigh copes as best she can with Daddy's continuing sexual abuse, trying to be a good girl, finding solace in binge eating and cutting herself with a razor. Young Raeanne could only watch, scared and jealous. Daddy started looking for the love he couldn't get from Mom by visiting little Kaeleigh in the night, back when she was only ten. There was a fatality and Mom lost her ability to love. Their family had been torn apart years before, when their Daddy drank too much and swerved their car into oncoming traffic. ![]() Raeanne and Kaeleigh, are both troubled high school students. This technique illustrates the twins' deep connection. Where the two are juxtaposed, selected words from each are identical, set off from the rest, as if trying to join with the words from the other twin on the opposite page. ![]() Each twin's chapter ends on a left-hand page, while the other twin's chapter begins on a right-hand page. Their narratives are written in free verse in sometimes jagged shapes of broken hearts or liquor bottles, with the appearance of the text reinforcing the content. "Identical" is written from the alternating viewpoint of the twins, Raeanne and Kaeleigh Gardella, with chapters switching between their two perspectives. ![]()
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