Name: The Conjoined
Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9781525229763

Jen Sookfong Lee

Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised on Vancouver's East Side, where she now lives with her son. Her books include The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, The End of East, and Shelter. A popular radio personality, Jen was the voice behind CBC Radio One's weekly writing column, Westcoast Words, for three years, appears regularly as a contributor on The Next Chapter, and is a frequent co-host of the Studio One Book Club. Jen teaches writing in the continuing studies departments at both Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia

A Novel

The Conjoined

Social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother's belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery: two dad girls curled into the bottom of her mother' chest freezers.

MacKenzie Hamon

Both me and my grandma loved this book! Which speaks strongly to the character development and fast-paced plot. I read it in virtually one sitting.

I enjoyed what this book was trying to do. Uncovering the "real" story of the background and leadup to the death of two young, Asian girls who end up in the foster system. How it affects the different people involved and how stories can get twisted along the way. 

And yet I just wasn't sold. Maybe it was the audio that I didn't enjoy - I just can't sink into narration that includes music and sound effects? Or maybe it was the writing style which depicted what was happening but didn't have me really engaging with the tragic things that were happening to characters. Maybe it was the multiple perspectives and bouncing around the different timelines. 

Either way, I wasn't engaged in this story the way I feel I should have been.

The Conjoined A Novel

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