The Conjoined A Novel

Social worker Jessica Campbell is sorting through her recently deceased mother's belongings when she makes a shocking discovery in the basement: two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother's chest freezers. She immediately remembers Casey and Jamie Cheng, two troubled, beautiful, and wild teenaged sisters from Vancouver's Chinatown who lived with her family as foster children in 1988. After six weeks, the girls disappeared, and everyone, including Jessica, assumed they had run away. As Jessica delves into the mystery of Casey and Jamie's fate, their family, and their troubled immigrant Chinese parents, she unearths dark stories about her mother, Donna, whom she had always thought of as the perfect mother and foster mother. Moving between the present day and 1980s Vancouver, the novel follows Jessica's obsession as she uncovers horrifying secrets that shatter her perception of her family. The story unflinchingly examines the myth of social heroism, and the societal fractures that divide diverse cities and assign unwanted roles to society's most vulnerable individuals.

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