Riverhead Books

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. Shes even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their lifeas she sees itis perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost... And then one day she sees something shocking. Its only a minute until the train moves on, but...

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it`s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it`s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past....