Cassandra at the Wedding

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Cassandra at the Wedding was the last novel published by American writer Dorothy Baker. It follows the relationship between a set of identical twins, Judith and Cassandra Edwards, who are set to reunite after an extended separation from each other. During this absence, Judith has gotten engaged to an East Coast medical student that her sister has yet to meet. Cassandra returns to their childhood home in the Sierra Foothills to attend Judith's wedding at her sister's request, where most of the events of the novel unfold over just a few days. The novel was originally published in 1962 by Houghton Mifflin in the U.S. and Victor Gollancz in the U.K. It was re-released first in 2004, then again in 2012 after being acquired by the New York Review of Books. Its republishing was allegedly brokered by Edwin Frank, one of the founders of the NYRB. The 2012 edition included an afterword written by Deborah Eisenberg, a highly accoladed short story writer. Her husband, Howard Baker, has stated Dorothy...

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