I See You Everywhere Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year

Julia Glass, the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes, returns with a tender, riveting book of two sisters and their complicated relationship.

Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful: the one who yearns for a good marriage, an artistic career, a family. Clem, the archetypal youngest, is the rebel: committed to her work saving animals, but not to the men who fall for her. In this vivid, heartrending story of what we can and cannot do for those we love, the sisters grow closer as they move further apart. All told with sensual detail and deft characterization, I See You Everywhere is a candid story of life and death, companionship and sorrow, and the nature of sisterhood itself.

The Barnes & Noble Review

The story of Clem and Louisa Jardine, the mismatched sisters at the heart of Julia Glass's intricate third novel, I See You Everywhere, covers 25 years. It takes just a few pages, though, to get the lay of the land. We meet Louisa, the careful and conscientious older sister, as she's headed to Vermont in 1980 to claim a share of her great-aunt's jewelry. Living unhappily in Santa Barbara, where she's been dumped by a boyfriend and has failed to make good as a potter, Louisa can ill afford the trip. But the thought that her sister could claim the best of the booty spurs her on. Clem, after all, younger by four years, is their mother's favorite. She's a free spirit whose fearless forward rush through life has always made Louisa feel upstaged. No way Clem's getting the best of Louisa this time.