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When Wheelock denies her what she longs for most — a child — Lark is forced to re-examine a life marked by unrealized ambitions and thwarted desires. As she takes charge of her destiny, Lark comes to rely on Robin in ways she never could have imagined. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this meditation on motherhood, sisterhood, desire, and self-knowledge, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complex path towards fulfillment as an artist and as a human being.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A spellbinding fever dream of a tale that will leave you forever changed, and will surely earn Ohlin a place among the greatest writers of our generation. I loved it.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJoanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“This novel sneaks up on you the way life does — full of chance and yearning. It’s a precise, subtle, sad, and graceful story about how we care for each other, and how we try to, and how we fail.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Ohlin’s story of sisters wraps its tendrils deep as any family. Dual Citizens leads a reader through landscapes of compassion and crisis in this deeply felt, iridescent novel of the spells and surprises a sibling creates.” — \u003cstrong\u003eSamantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e“There’s so much life in this novel! Alix Ohlin is such an effortless, absorbing stylist, and with Dual Citizens she has given us a story about family and sacrifice that will give readers a great deal to consider. It’s a wonderful book that you will want to share.” — \u003cstrong\u003eOwen King, author of Double Feature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Owen King, author of Double Feature","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e“For longtime admirers of Alix Ohlin’s fiction, the psychological complexity and keen observations in this novel will come as no surprise. In \u003cem\u003eDual Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e, Ohlin examines the conflicting desires of two sisters from Montreal with a riveting precision reminiscent of fellow Montreal native Mavis Gallant. However, unlike Gallant’s Montreal girls, Ohlin’s are not of a generation ‘trained to be good and patient’ but to follow their ambitions. A lifelong witness to one’s shifting longings, this wise and luminous novel shows, is a sibling.” — \u003cstrong\u003eIdra Novey, author of Those Who Knew\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Idra Novey, author of Those Who Knew","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Alix Ohlin is a thrilling and singular writer who intimately captures and celebrates a lifetime of desires, disappointments, and everyday triumphs in these two sisters’ lives. I couldn’t stop thinking about it: Dual Citizens will take up residency in your mind and heart for quite some time.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Gilmore, author of The Mothers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Jennifer Gilmore, author of The Mothers","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Touching . . . \u003cem\u003eDual Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e has a lot in common with Zadie Smith’s Swing Time and Claire Messud’s The Burning Girl.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Wall Street Journal","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Fascinating and unexpected.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChatelaine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“With supreme confidence, Ohlin’s quicksilver prose and brilliant characterization at once seize and pull the reader into the wide-ranging and complex world of half-sisters Robin and Lark as they struggle with questions of identity, the slow burn of mental illness, and the need to leave your mark on the world. Her characters are as complex and real as your own dearest loved ones. 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Dual Citizens
An intimate and compelling novel about motherhood, love and the search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.
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Ohlin packs entire lives into mere pages, allowing readers to join the flow of fully realized, complex scenarios whose key moments exude the inevitable open-endedness of real life. These stories bring us into the company of people who want what we all want: to connect, to matter, to heal, and to cross into unfamiliar territory, hoping that the risk will be worthwhile.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAtwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury Citation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Review_13":"The collection explore[s] desire and grief through a finely drawn and eclectic cast of characters ... 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We Want What We Want
Thirteen glittering and darkly funny stories of people testing boundaries, from two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin.
