Act of God /

"It's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who's mistaken her own eccentricity for origina...

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Main Author: Ciment, Jill, 1953- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
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