num_pages: 288
description: In the wake of sudden tragedy twin sisters uncover a secret that rips open their world. Katherine Rothschild explores the pain and power of forgiveness in a stunning debut novel that will shatter your heart and piece it back together one truth at a time.Sixteen-year-old Sabine Braxton doesnt have much in common with her identical twin Blythe. When their father dies from an unexpected illness each copes with the loss in her own waySabine by poeting (an uncontrollable quirk of bursting into poetry at inappropriate moments) and Blythe by obsessing over getting into MIT their fathers alma mater. Neither can offer each other much support . . . at least not until their emotionally detached mother moves them into a ramshackle Bay Area mansion owned by a stranger named Charlie.Soon the sisters unite in a mission to figure out who Charlie is and why he seems to know everything about them. They make a life-changing discovery: their parents were hiding secrets about their sexual identities. The revelation unravels Sabines world while practical Blythe seems to take everything in stride. Once again at odds with her sister Sabine chooses to learn all she can about the father she never knew. Ultimately she must decide if she can embrace his last wish for a family legacy--even if it means accepting a new idea of what it means to be a family.
language: English
title: Wider Than the Sky
publisher: Soho Teen