"Black swans are events that are hugely important, rare, and unpredictable, and explainable only after the fact," according to philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb. "They populate the whirlpool of uncertainty that is the future." The three black swans in this book are identical triplets separated at birth. Missy has an assignment in biology class to perpetuate a hoax. She decides to announce at morning announcements at her high school that her cousin, Claire, is, in fact, her identical twin sister. A video is made of the announcement and goes viral. Wondering who is adopted and who their real parents are, the girls cope with effects of the video, and discover a third sister...and some answers. This is a great, hard to put down, read.
Truman Award Preliminary Nominee 2012-2013
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