Hesper

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The particulars of the sisters’ relationship — “when we were kids, she’d locked me in the pantry with all the canned goods because the cat liked me better,” Hesper remembers — and the knotty connection between their divorced but still-involved parents feel more compelling than the relationship between the novel’s namesakes.

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Willa and Hesper do end up unearthing deeper truths about themselves and humanity.

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After breaking up, Willa and Hesper each travel, separately, to the Old World, to discover their roots and soothe their heartache.

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When she tries to return to Willa and Hesper’s post-breakup suffering, it seems trivial by comparison, the worms in the apple.

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But soon Hesper, at first free-spirited and selfish, starts to behave similarly deficient.

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