Institut Ramon LLull

After nineteen years of separation, semi-identical twins —one sexually ambiguous and missing a forearm— have grown up feeling that something was missing in their lives, and are both strongly opposed to labels. Despite their creative success, Ari as a rapper and Aran as a dancer, they talk to mirrors and hug pillows and rag dolls, feel bonded with paired cherries and eggs with double yolks; they live somehow enveloped in fog.

In addition to the narration by each of the twins, this novel of many first-person voices includes Aran’s adoptive mother, her ex-girlfriend, their birth mother, and their repentant father who abandoned them. The story moves between Valencia and Barcelona in a fast-moving evocative style that is both sparsely poetic and casually colloquial as it interrogates the unassailable rights and responsibilities between parents and their children, and between siblings.