The Sisters Antipodes: A Memoir

"A wrenching, luminous memoir" of how betrayal and divorce transformed two families and the lives of two young women (People).

When Jane Alison was a child, her family met another that seemed like its mirror. Each had a father in the Foreign Service, a beautiful mother, and two little girls. The younger two—one of them Jane—even shared a birthday.

With so much in common, the two families quickly became inseparable. Within months, affairs had ignited between the adults, and before long the...