Dear Twin Minnesota Will they make it to

Will they make it to the competition

and heartbroken--at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic

SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE

Joy wants to fight for her right to cheer

knowing someone was gay and not reporting it warranted tortuous sentences if not death

Dear Twin Minnesota Will they make it toPoppy wants to go to college like everyone else, but her father has other ideas. Ever since her twin sister, Lola, mysteriously vanished, Poppy's father has been depressed and forces her to stick around. She hopes she can convince Lola to come home, and perhaps also procure her freedom, by sending her twin a series of nineteen letters, one for each year of their lives.