A hauntingly beautiful, wickedly funny, and devastatingly moving vel of incence and dreams that anunces the arrival of a major new talent to the literary sceneIn the attic room at 26 Waifer Avenue, identical twins Georgia and Bessi Hunter share nectarines and forge their identities, while escaping from the sadness and danger that inhabit the floors below. But incence lasts for only so long--and dreams, matter how vivid and powerful, cant slow the relentless incursion of the real world.