When Hate Made The Difference: A Novel of Identical DNA and Unequal Lives - Sutton-Butler, Fedora

When Hate Made The Difference: A Novel of Identical DNA and Unequal Lives by Sutton-Butler, Fedora

Format: Paperback

Published by Fedora Sutton-Butler

When Hate Made the Difference is a literary novel about identical DNA, unequal lives, and the long biological and emotional shadows of childhood. Separated as infants after a family tragedy in rural Trinidad, identical twins Mary and Lucy grow up in radically different worlds. Lucy is raised in a loving home by family friends; Mary is taken in by an embittered aunt whose resentment shapes every year of her childhood. Though genetically identical, the sisters grow into women whose bodies, health, and emotional lives bear little resemblance to one another. Decades later, Mary—now a molecular biologist—returns to Trinidad when her aunt suffers a heart attack. Armed with new scientific evidence suggesting that chronic childhood stress can alter gene expression, Mary must confront the woman who raised her and the past that may have changed her forever.

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