Tea Cups & Tiger Claws
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $3.99
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Publisher Description
Three identical sisters. One town. A lifetime of consequences.
In 1916, a set of triplets is born into sudden fame—and quickly sold to the highest bidders.
Two are raised in luxury on a hilltop estate.
The third grows up in an abandoned work camp.
But hardship and privilege leave their marks—and not always as you’d expect.
As the years pass, the distance between them grows—in wealth, power, and circumstance. But in a small town, nothing stays separate forever.
When their worlds finally collide, the truth of who they are—and what they’ve become—will demand a reckoning.
A sweeping work of historical fiction about fate, class, and what we make of the lives we’re given.
“An engagingly twisted family saga.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Darkly funny, edgy, and complex.” — The Kindle Book Review, ★★★★★
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Patrick's uneven novel, the lives of triplet girls born in 1916 take very different paths after a wealthy woman adopts daughters Abigail and Judith from poor, earthy Ermel Railer and her husband, Jeb. The third sister, Dorthea, is not as lucky and eventually she ends up in a work camp. However, over the next half-century, the sisters' paths cross as Dorthea embarks on a relentless and increasingly vicious quest for the life her sisters obtained. While the book's theme of true merit versus apparent virtue is fascinating, the novel suffers from poor plotting and underdeveloped characters. Additionally, the story's climax is implausible, melodramatic, and drawn-out. In the end, these deficiencies will prevent readers from becoming fully engaged in the sisters' story.
