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    I See You Everywhere

    Written by Julia Glass

    Narrated by Julia Glass and Mary Stuart Masterson

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    About this audiobook

    From the author of the best-selling Three Junes comes an intimate new work of fiction: a tale of two sisters, together and apart, told in their alternating voices over twenty-five years.

    Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful: the one who years for a good marriage, an artistic career, a family. Clem, the archetypal youngest, is the rebel: uncontainable, iconoclastic, committed to her work but not to the men who fall for her daring nature. Louisa resents that the charismatic Clem has always been the favorite; yet as Clem puts it, "On the other side of the fence-mine-every expectation you fulfill . . . puts you one stop closer to that Grand Canyon rim from which you could one day rule the world-or plummet in very grand style."

    In this vivid, heartrending story of what we can and cannot do for those we love, the sisters grow closer as they move farther apart. Louis settles in New York while Clem, a wildlife biologist, moves restlessly about until she lands in the Rocky Mountains. Their complex bond, Louisa observes, is "like a double helix, two souls coiling around a common axis, joined yet never touching."

    Alive with all the sensual detail and riveting characterization that mark Glass's previous work, I See You Everywhere is a piercingly candid story of life and death, companionship and sorrow, and the nature of sisterhood itself.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 14, 2008
    ISBN9780739370377
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    • 5/5
      Great book!
    • 4/5
      I listened to the audiobook, read by the author & Mary Stuart Masterson. The narrative is told by the two main characters so it was nice to have two distinct voices reading their respective parts. The episodes do feel somewhat like linked short stories, & some of them ended sooner than I was ready for, but all in all it was very good.
    • 4/5
      It's hard to know how to rate this book. It's essentially a story of two sisters who aren't terribly close but do often come together in times of personal stress. They don't, however, share the depths of their thoughts and emotions. They are both somewhat detached from each other, and therefore the reader (me!) also feels that detachment. I was kind-of expecting a great emotional involvement, but I got distance instead. That surely is the point of the story, and hence you'd have to say that Julia Glass has done a very good job of conveying that condition. I think she's trying to say that the relationship between two people, sisters in this particular case, has the potential to make life meaningful, but it's not automatic and there's a lot of obstacles in the way of such a redeeming connection. I think she's saying that obstacles might even be *more* substantial in the case of two sisters?The relationships of both women with a variety of men are also explored to some extent. That made me feel somewhat uncomfortable, as the sisters described inadequacies which I recognized in myself. Maybe these relationships could have been examined in greater detail...but this would require a significantly larger novel and a dilution of the focus on the sibling relationship.
    • 1/5
      Very disappointing. No words!!
    • 1/5
      I loved Three Junes so so much, that I've wanted to love everything else JG has written. This novel isn't as awful as her second one, but it is also disappointing in a similar way: it feels naive and pat. Although compelling enough that I finished it, and very occasionally touching, mostly it's facile and simplistic in its descriptions and themes of "nature" "science" and "wild animals", and the characters seem too credulous, their lives ingenuously perfect--even in their experience of despair, anger, loss! (the series of boyfriends/lovers/husbands, the food and cooking, the specific music that supposedly is for emotional flavor but will date,not in a good way, all appear too correct and too good to be true and carefully tied up).
      The most interesting and believable character was the distant, irritating, hunting-hound mother, and reminded me of that wonderful segment of Three Junes.
      I found out afterwards that this JG's most autobiographical book, and I'm sorry that the author experienced the losses she describes in her life, but it just goes to show that "writing what you know" doesn't mean it's going to be good art, or even feel truthful and moving to readers.
      In the end the book reminded me how much better Andrea Barret writes about science and nature (exploring, through these themes, many profound issues in her books) and, of course, the ultimate, AS Byatt, who also writes about those issues as well as about family and loss in a rigorously intellectual, never facile, and always thought-provoking and emotionally convincing way that is never simplistically plotted or tied up in the end.
    • 2/5
      Yeah no. Classic case of getting sucked in by a pretty cover, but then the interior novel falls short. This is (unbeknownst to me) a series of not really connected vignettes, about two sisters, both of whom narrate. Sometimes in the same chapter. Without any defining characteristics. At times, I wasn't even aware the narration had changed until the sister I THOUGHT was speaking was called out by name. The short stories span years at a time, but don't flow, so it's a series of choppy, confusing, somewhat boring mini stories. AND THEN the younger sister KILLS HERSELF. YES. WHAT. I had to read it three times to make sure I understood what had happened. Believe me when I understand that suicide can sometimes feel like it comes out of nowhere but this literally came out of NOWHERE. Thankfully, I wasn't as attached to the characters, so I just kept right on plugging through until the end. thank Jesus I rented this from the library, I'd be seriously bummed if I bought this one. Nope. No thanks.
    • 2/5
      I really MUST learn to abandon books that look, in the early stages, as if they’re not going to suit me. This thing kept not suiting me, yet I kept plowing through it. Starting in their young adulthood, this story follows two sisters with their history of sibling rivalry, and going their separate paths in life. Whining, bellyaching, bitching, moaning and complaining – that was basically the story here. I listened to the audio, and it wasn’t the two narrators’ voices, but the author’s words that felt like a screeching blackboard to my brain. Really – this thing kept screaming “abandon me”. I should have listened. I’m giving it an extra star, though, because maybe I just wasn’t the right reader for this book.
    • 3/5
      A study in sibling relationships, this novel span two sisters' lives. While Louisa and Clem are opposites, they have a bond that neither can define. Their story is told in connected vignettes from each sisters' viewpoint; revealing the burdens each have to bear. An unexpected and disturbing ending fits the tone of this insightful novel. A great read for sisters.
    • 3/5
      The story is about two sisters, Louisa and Clem. Louisa is the eldest by a few years. She's more reserved, creates pottery, and edits art magazines. She wants to find "the one" guy and have a family. Clem, on the other hand, is young and reckless. She always has a guy or two in the reserve. She studies wildlife and has exotic adventures in Patagonia, Alaska, and other places.The story spans twenty-five years, from 1980 to 2005, with each chapter alternating perspectives from the sisters. It's usually during some crisis or another when we pop into their lives.Honestly, I thought the writing was amazing...well usually. Sometimes her descriptions blew me away and her words just carried the novel. But it took me at least half of the book to get a somewhat good grasp on the sisters. I honestly liked both sisters but they both had faults. Louisa has a love/hate relationship with Clem, mainly stemming from jealousy. Clem always had it easy with guys and was always their mom's favorite. Clem seemed freewheeling but she always appeared to be running away from her jobs, her boyfriends...just constantly moving. And while the sisters are never truly close, they always seem to drift back together during a crises.Something was missing that made me love this book. I think it was how slippery the characters were. I don't feel like I ever really knew them. And sometimes the writing was a bit confusing. For instance, she'd describe things with animal terms but during the chapters with Louisa, the art person, narrating. And it would sometimes take me a while into a chapter to realize it was about Clem or Louisa, so that made it a bit confusing.But all in all I liked it. I have a sister so I sort of understand that love/hate/competition/support thing that sisters do. I'd recommend it for the writing which was usually just wonderful, the odd side characters, and the last few chapters which are just heart-wrenching.
    • 4/5
      I read this in two days. I really adore Julia Glass' writing style.It's so smooth and full of beauty. I was surprised to see that the pieces in the book had originally been published as stories in other places, because they feel so cohesive. The only peeve I have with it, which is why it doesn't get 5 stars is that the first chapter has these really annoying POV shifts between the two sisters, both are in first person and the name of one of the characters is, bothersomely, Clement. So it is really, really distracting. But don't let this put you off. The rest of the book is a beautiful account of what it's like to be sisters.
    • 5/5
      The story of two sisters, twisted apart by men and temperament, twisted together by birth and family. Louisa and Clement are nothing alike, and yet they share so many of the same things. Add to that a back story of a great-great-aunt and her sisters and you will find more ssisterly living than you know what to do with. If you have a sister you love, read this book. If you have a sister you hate, read this book. Another excellent book by the author of The Three Junes.
    • 2/5
      2 sisters of a different ilk reunite. one has cancer, the other loves bears and animals an ddies. she had tried to save a young bear cub with heart surgery.
    • 3/5
      I See You Everywhere, the latest novel by Julia Glass, is a seriously flawed gem that will probably be appreciated best by those who are already ardent fans of the author's writing. Like her other two books, this novel is an exquisitely crafted reproduction of real life. In this case, the work is a meditative character study of two sisters and their evolving relationship over twenty-five years. The characterizations are outstanding, the prose lovely—at times even breathtaking—but what the book lacks is an overarching plot and tension within that plot. Although I am an enthusiastic fan of Julia Glass' works, it took me four months and three separate tries to work up the interest to finish this book. Only on the third try did I discover the key to keeping my interest aroused enough to complete it. For me, the secret was giving up trying to find a consistent thread of a plot. Instead, I just settled down to enjoy the author's prose on a page-by-page basis, expecting nothing from the plot as a whole. At that point, the work really started to blossom and delight me. I took great pleasure in each image and fictional real-life situation that the author created for me to visualize and experience. I started getting interested in getting to understand the two sisters and analyzing their ever-changing relationship. Indeed, I rediscovered how much I love Glass' writing: she has such an extraordinary ability to create reality with words!Of course by the time I finished the novel, I realized that there was, after all, a consistent thread that held the whole together. But that thread was ultimately too thin and bore no tension from beginning to end. Glass loves building each of her novels with a definite physical structure. Three Junes was a detailed character study of one unique character built on the structure of a triptych. This three-part structure was vital to the success of the whole. Each part could have stood on its own as a separate novella, but together the parts symbiotically created a far greater work allowing the reader to view the main character from three different perspectives. The Whole World Over was a thematic study of family and read like a collection of interlocking short stories. Its structure was a complicated three-dimensional Venn diagram. Its emphasis was fully on the theme of family, and thus it was groups of overlapping and intertwining families, and not individual characters, that Glass was trying to develop. With I See You Everywhere, the structure is a double helix. The double-twining structure is repeated throughout the work, most noticeably in the narration of two separate first person voices—one for each of the two sisters. The structure is inventive, but Glass fails to make this motif live up to its possibilities. The whole double first person narration and intertwining lives seems forced and artificial…Glass never quite pulls off the experiment. Throughout the reading experience, the architecture of the novel is always too apparent and detracts from the rich reality of the prose. If you are a fan of Julia Glass, by all means, read this book. There is great reward to be found in appreciating her prose and getting to know, appreciate, and understand the two main characters. But if you have never read any work by Glass, then I strongly urge you to read Three Junes first. That is by far her best work and is where you should begin.
    • 3/5
      I thought the writing in this book was wonderful. I like the way Julia Glass puts things and the observations she makes. They always have me nodding in recognition. I also thought she had a nice handle on the relationship between the sisters, and Clem was very likable. However, near the end, there was a tragedy that didn't feel like it was "earned."
    • 5/5
      I’ve been laid up with an injury for several weeks, and I’ve been reading up a storm. I have been FLYING though the pages. Julia Glass’s I See You Everywhere dragged me to a grinding stop. It must have taken me two weeks to read this short 300-page novel. I know that sounds bad, but on the contrary, I thought the novel was phenomenal. I’m not sure why it took me so long to read. What I can say is that the deeper into the novel I got, the more I liked it. And the longer the stretches of time that I devoted to reading, the more I liked it.The novel is a character study of two sisters, Louisa and Clem(entine) Jardine, who are very different women. I See You Everywhere spans 25 years of their lives, starting when Louisa is a surly 24-year-old, and Clem is only 20. Their story is told episodically, beginning in 1980, and skipping ahead years (or sometimes only months). Through viewing their lives through these snapshot windows of time, you see how radically their lives change and how the women change--and how they stay the same. The maturation of each of these women rang so true to me. For the most part, the chapters alternated between the points of view of each sister. In the beginning, it was tricky figuring out which one was talking, and frankly, trying to remember which sister was which. But as I got to know these ladies, that was no longer a problem. Often times, one sister would recollect an event we experienced first-hand through the eyes of the other, and I always found these overlaps, or recollections of past events already depicted, especially interesting. Each time we would check in with one of the characters, I’d await with interest the clues that would let me know where she was in her life. Does she live in the same city? Is she with the same man? Does she have the same job? The answer was usually “no.” My life would be much the same if viewed every few years. It’s easy to forget how much changes over time. This constant moving forward kept my interest up. While I wouldn’t describe this as a plot-driven novel, at one point a development shocked me to the core. I yelled, “Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!” alone in my apartment. While it was shocking, it was also believable. Take care what you read about this novel, so as not to ruin a considerable surprise.I found myself reading the chapter titles carefully. They were so clever, and often had multiple meanings. When I finally realized the full significance of the novel’s odd title, I just loved it.I opened talking about how slowly I read this novel. Part of the reason may have been me just stopping to reflect on what I had read. Not so much the beauty of the sentences, but what struck me as some deeply truthful insights into the characters or into life in general. I have a feeling this novel will stick with me for a long time. I am one of two sisters. We really aren’t very much like Clem and Louisa except that we are so unlike each other. I may have to share this book with her. So we can disagree about it.
    • 5/5
      Once again, a beautifully written book by Julia Glass. And again, quite different from the first two books -- this story is about two sisters, very different sisters in almost every way, and their love-hate relationship over the years. The story is told picking up every few years with each sister filling in what has happened in their lives in the preceding years -- they DO lead rather eventful lives! One sister is a bit of a wild thing, a wildlife biologist, the other more sober and steady perhaps, an artist and a writer. There is humor and tragedy -- I found myself sitting in my backyard and quite unexpectedly sobbing at one point, hoping my neighbors couldn't hear me. Glass' books are even more interesting to me when I think that they're all considered to be autobiographical to a certain extent. Three Junes may have been my favorite, but I wasn't disappointed with I See You Everywhere.