A Sign of the Times

They say a story starts with just a spark.

For the Maloneys, it starts with their childhood home going up in flames.

The fire takes the house, and the siblings scatter. Twins Fee and Didi find themselves in the dating pool, married and constantly competing with one another. Mo (just Mo, no "Maura" as her birth certificate may say) heads out west to California, embracing her affinity for numbers and identity as a lesbian. Martine goes to graduate school, which takes her across the world not on...