The plot concerns identical twins Desiree and Stella Vignes, who leave their small Louisiana village at the age of 16 to seek their fortune in New Orleans. Since the novel is driven by the perceptions and recollections of its characters, the story does not move in a linear fashion. Just as the time and location shift among numerous places and decades, the limited third-person narrative point of view shifts among multiple people. The story begins in the small village of Mallard, Louisiana, in 1968 and then skips to New Orleans, New York, Southern California, and back to Mallard between 1978 and the early 1980s. The novel is set in several locations during different time periods.
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