

Haunted by both her mother and her grandmother, she turns to an eccentric sculptor for mentoring and meets his protégé, a dangerously charismatic British college student. Jude is 16 in hers, observing a “boy boycott” since their mother’s death two years earlier she is also a sculpture student at the California School of the Arts-which, inexplicably, Noah did not get into. His intense attraction to Brian is first love at its most consuming.

An immensely talented painter, Noah is 13 1/2 in his thread, when Brian moves in next door to their coastal Northern California home. Nelson tells her tale of grief and healing in separate storylines, one that takes place before their art-historian mother’s fatal car accident and one that takes place after, allowing readers and twins to slowly understand all that’s happened. Twins Noah and Jude used to be NoahandJude-inseparable till betrayal and tragedy ripped them apart.
