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"Nine-year-old Sabina and Camilla are passing the summer of 2001 in their insulated upstate New York town navigating the moods of their erratic mother while finding themselves pulled toward increasingly opposite interests-Sabina into trying to extract details about the absent "French rascal" father she knows little else about, and Camilla into burgeoning popularity. The arrival of new neighbors offers some excitement, though, especially when Sabina discovers the family is Arab-French. Thrilled by the connection to her biological father's home country, Sabina zeroes in on the aloof son, Khalil, who bristles at her attempts at friendship. But as the twins and Khalil come of age, they find themselves drawn into muddling connections that endure and collapse across time and geography. As Sabina strives to find her father and make sense of her mother; as Camilla confronts whether the power she held in youth translates to adulthood; as Khalil reckons with the psychological fallout of a family tragedy, the paths of the once-neighbors converge in ways both surprising and inevitable, churning towards a revelatory conclusion"-- Provided by publisher.