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A darkly comic novel about personal triage in the face of life's odds-the odds of genetics, gambling odds, the odds of finding and keeping love, the odds of risk and rescue and survival.. nna Riggs Duffy is a woman painfully out of touch with her own needs. Anna and her husband, George, live in New Orleans with their twins, George Jr. and Gregor. If they are in most ways identical, the twins are ... More

A darkly comic novel about personal triage in the face of life's odds-the odds of genetics, gambling odds, the odds of finding and keeping love, the odds of risk and rescue and survival.. nna Riggs Duffy is a woman painfully out of touch with her own needs. Anna and her husband, George, live in New Orleans with their twins, George Jr. and Gregor. If they are in most ways identical, the twins are also each other's doppelgngers. George is born physically perfect-and mean. Gregor, big-hearted and sweet-natured, has a chromosomal glitch that gave him blunted limbs, stumps without hands or feet. George Sr. seems to love only George Jr., while Anna favors Gregor.But one day there is a tragic accident, and Anna can save only one of the twins.In their grief and estrangement, George turns to another woman while Anna turns to the slot machines in the waterfront casinos, depleting her savings. Can she win George back and save their marriage? And does she really want to, anyway? Anna realizes her odds for survival come to rest squarely on purposefulness instead of on accident and probability in this wonderful and strange new book by Patty Friedmann.

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