“. . . a caring, searching novel, at once the story of a lifelong friendship and a brilliant rumination on how we come to know others and ourselves.” —Author Zach Powers, The Migraine Diaries On the surface . . . an engrossing tale about two women seemingly sisters but fiercely competitive, one a scientist . . . and the other a journalist struggling to write a biographical novel. On a deeper level the tensions of the . . . relationship between art and reality, are brought into an engrossing new and sharp perspective. —Author Janice L. Ross Alison, a journalist with a full family life, and Devra, an unmarried brilliant scientist, have been blood sisters since childhood. Each was confident she knew the other inside and out. Seven decades later, Devra’s terminal illness and an unearthed cache of her personal papers collide with Alison’s desire to write Devra’s life story, and force both women to confront secrets in their friendship. As they read through the papers, the friends wonder what in their lives and relationship is real, imagined, or possibly both. “Uncertainty, like hope, leaves the door open for a miracle to slip through” —Alison