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Twenty-something Ellen Kaplan has just returned home from a two-year trip around Europe to find someone has been sleeping in her bed, eating at her place at the dining-room table, and generally replacing her in the bosom of her family. That someone is April, a junk food-scarfing, nylon-wearing refugee from a decidedly less posh area of the country than Ellen's native Philmont, Pennsylvania. Yet somehow this tacky and vulgar intruder has captured the heart of her beloved big brother, James, and without even a college degree, she has convinced him to forsake the philosophy Ph.D. program at Berkeley. She has also apparently changed her parents' very personalities, converting them from a baby-boomer suburban power couple into Ward and June Cleaver. Ellen, however, has always had her way at home, and she vows to evict April before she becomes her new sister-in-law. Spinning a dizzying tale of family bonding and unbonding, Corene Lematre follows Ellen's hilarious, sneaky plotting even as she faces some surprising possibilities about who her family really is. The worst possibility is that Ellen's archrival may in fact be her soul-sister.
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