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Title: The Conjoined

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Jen Sookfong Lee

Narrator: Sabryn Rock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-17

Publisher: ECW Press

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother's belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement she makes a shocking discovery - two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother's chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988: Casey and Jamie Cheng - troubled, beautiful, and wild teenage sisters from Vancouver's Chinatown. After six weeks they disappeared; social workers, police officers, and Jessica herself assumed they had run away.

As Jessica learns more about Casey, Jamie, and their troubled immigrant Chinese parents, she also unearths dark stories about Donna, whom she had always thought of as the perfect mother. The complicated truths she uncovers force her to take stock of own life.

Moving between present and past, this riveting novel unflinchingly examines the myth of social heroism and traces the often-hidden fractures that divide our diverse cities.

Critic Reviews:

"The mystery of how the girls died is not the book's main focus, but this captivating novel still moves with the pace of a thriller as it deftly fills in the gaps in the lives of several people, each fractured by horrors of their very own, joined as one in betrayal, trauma, and uncertainty." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Bodies discovered in freezer of well-respected foster mother. Not such a do-gooder after all?

3â

Jessica is trying to help her father get over the death of her mother, who had a reputation as a perfect foster mother of many troubled children, from traumatised little ones to rebellious, destructive teens. A woman who filled photo albums and scrapbooks for the kids to show how happy their time with her was. She seldom âfailedâ.

Donna had been an earth mother, the one who grew all her own veggies, made soup for sick neighbours. A bit of a hippy with a âverging-on-manly chuckle that jiggled her belly and shook the grey-blonde curls that fell around her shoulders, riotous. Donna might have dropped stray threads and beads from her clothes while she clomped through mulch and mud, but her touch was always light. Just a fingertip, or the brush of her knuckles across her daughterâs forehead when she was checking for fever.â

Jessica and her father couldnât stand Donnaâs cooking â âslow-cooked pulled tofuâ â and sneaked out for hamburgers in cheerful defiance.

We get a lot of do-gooder messages about social justice, crime, domestic violence, bullying. Too many for me.

Jessicaâs dad had been an environmental lawyer. Jessica is a social worker (living up to Donna) who struggles with her caseload. Her partner, Trevor, is a sensitive, caring man who struggles on behalf of homeless clients and wants to save the world.

But early in the story, which takes place in Vancouver, Jessica and her father discover the bodies of two young girls in Donnaâs freezers in the basement.