Both girls must figure out how to become whole, but how can they when their world has been torn to shreds?" Reception Raeanne uses painkillers, drugs, alcohol, sex, and purging as an outlet to numb the pain of not being Daddy's favorite.
She cuts herself and binge eats, desperate to feel something normal. Kaeleigh is the good girl-her father's perfect flower, something she has tried so hard to be since she was nine and he started sexually abusing her. Everything on the surface of their lives seems Norman Rockwell perfect, but underneath run deep and damaging secrets. "Kaeleigh and Raeanne are 16-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a district court judge father and politician mother running for Congress.
Hopkins has stated that "Some of the material for the book came from friends, friends who are now strong successful women and you would never guess that abuse is in their past". The book was released in August 2008 and hit The New York Times Bestsellers list. Identical is Ellen Hopkins's fifth novel.
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