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`Rich, intricate and alive with emotion. . . An honest portrait of sister-love and sister-hate - interlocking, brave and forgiving.' --New York Times Book Review --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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'One doesn't read so much as sink into a Julia Glass novel, lulled into an escapist reverie by her mastery . . .' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars White Chocolate and Seaweed, 3 Mar 2009

By	Mallory Smith (Tallahassee, Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a wonderful story about two sisters, Louisa and Clement, who are "as different as white chocolate and seaweed. They were born four years apart. Louise is the older and she is as steady as a rock. She tries to do what's right and strives to make a good impression. Clem, on the other hand, is a wandering soul. She is an outgoing person who makes friends easily. Men like her. She has a kind of wildness about her. Louisa has always kind of resented Clem.

The girls were raised by their dog raising mother, who reminded me a bit of the dog raising mother in THREE JUNES. Their father let mom run the show. As children the girls were very competitive. It seems they were always in some kind of power struggle.

Louisa marries and lives in New York, while Clem, who becomes a wildlife biologist, wanders from here to there, eventually settling in the Rocky Mountains. They seem to grow closer together as they move farther away from each other.

The chapters in this story alternate from each sister's point of view and Julia Glass really gives her readers an insight into their character. There is a bond between sisters and this book shows how strong it is, stronger than tragedy and cancer. This book warmed my heart and made me feel good, but it disturbed me too. Why that is, I really don't know, but I do know this, I can't recommend I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE, or any book written by Julia Glass highly enough.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A disjointed novel with unsympathetic characters, 5 May 2009

By	Julia Flyte - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

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"I see you everywhere" is a story about two sisters, Louisa and Clem. Born three years apart, they are very different and have a complex relationship: irritated by one another but also strongly connected, turning to each other whenever they have crises in their lives. They take turns narrating the story and sometimes it's not clear for a while which sister is talking, although in time it settles to alternate by chapter.

The book spans 13 years, from 1980 through to 1993, with a final chapter set in 2005. Essentially it's a series of disjointed snapshots from the sisters' lives. I found it disconcerting that something momentous could happen in one chapter (a relationship foundering, a head injury causing amnesia), which barely if ever gets referred to again.

I really liked Glass's first novel, "Three Junes", but I was very disappointed by this book. It is a novel which is character driven not plot driven. Unfortunately the characters just aren't very sympathetic or involving. For the most part, I didn't care about any of them. In fact, I actively disliked them (with the exception of an elderly aunt who dies at the start of the book). Having said that, there is a significant event which takes place towards the end of the book (I don't want to give anything away here as it came as a major surprise to me), which made me realise that I cared more about these characters than I had previously thought.

I strongly considered giving up on this book at the 100 page mark, but I persevered. I kept hoping that it would get better and it did improve, but not enough for me to recommend it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Joined Yet Never Touching, 2 Mar 2009

By	Tiffany Ann (Black Diamond Bay) - See all my reviews

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This is the story of Louisa and Clement Jardine, two sisters born four years apart. It's told from their alternating points of view and the story spans two and a half decades. Louisa is the oldest and we see her as a diligent student, a calm and cautious person, a planner who yearns for a happy marriage and a career as an artist. She is a Harvard graduate. Clem, on the other hand, is the proverbial wild child. She is the charismatic favorite child, she is restless, she has a wandering spirit and she likes good looking men and they like her back.

Growing up the girls seemed to compete for everything, including boys. They were raised by a mother who seemed more interested in the dogs she was raising and a father who seemed as intimidated by their mother as were her dogs.

Louisa follows a man to California, gets dumped by him and eventually winds up in New York as an arts editor for a magazine. She suffers through breast cancer, two marriages and an affair while Clem goes through some good looking, hunky guys before she winds up in the Rocky Mountains as an animal biologist.

The sisters seem closer when they are apart and just as I was wondering just where Ms. Glass was going with this, tragedy strikes and all of a sudden I knew exactly just what this book was all about. I might have given up had it not been for the gorgeous prose and the fact that Ms. Glass really made me fall in love with both of these girls. She did that to me with THREE JUNES as well. I loved just about that whole family.

In short, this is a very good book about two sisters who as are bonded as Ms. Glass describes, "like a double helix, two souls coiling around a common axis, joined yet never touching. Sisters everywhere will love this book. And even if you don't have a sister, I'm betting you'll love it too.

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