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"This is the co-winner of the Tiptree this year, so I expected a lot more from it.  The book is set in a world very similar to our own, except with more nuclear explosions and a population of conjoined twins large enough to have their own lobby groups.  Nora is uncomfortable sharing her body with her conjoined (but perpetually unconscious) twin, Blanche, so she resolves to get Blanche surgically removed.  I really love the idea of having two brains and thus, two personalities and two sexualities to a body, but the book doesn’t explore this.  Instead, it focuses on Nora’s childhood in the desert, where she had quirky, twisted adventures in the radioactive dunes.  By the end, Nora and the novel have lost all touch with reality—which is fun except for the fact that it’s completely unreadable.  This book is the written equivalent of the last twenty minutes of “2001”—I’m sure *something* “deep” is going on, but I’m not sure what and mostly I just feel bored and nauseated.  <br/>I actually feel insulted that Jackson expected readers to slog through hundreds of pages of self-congratulatory cleverness, with no discernable plot and unlikeable, unrealistic characters."
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