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Jane Alison discusses her memoir, The Sisters Antipodes.

About Jane Alison

When Jane Alison was four, her family met another that seemed identical: a diplomat father, beautiful mother, and two little girls, one who shared the same birthday as Jane. Within months, the parents had switched partners, divorced, remarried, created two new families, and moved far away from each other. People magazine called Alison's memoir "wrenching, luminous... Alison explores the incalculable damage done: the fraught, shifting alliances; her guilt as both dads apparently favored her over her doppelganger stepsister; the crippling shadow her childhood still casts."

Read Jane Alison's Modern Love essay titled "Swapping Fathers, Swiftly," which was adapted from her memoir and appeared in the New York Times.