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High School by Tegan Quin, Sara Quin
4.0

I don't know their music, so I didn't have any attachment to the musicians. I was just in it for the high school memoir about identical twins. i've always been interested in identicals. For the first half of the book I couldn't always keep track of who was who, but I didn't mind too much. I was surprised that they fought so much, given that the identicals in my life don't seem to fight at all. (Apparently you can't base an opinion on an entire group of people on a tiny sample.)

High school for Sara and Tegan (alphabetically, seems to be a thing. We never learn when or why their band name got reversed to "Tegan and Sara.") was about drugs, best friends, boys for a minute, and then girls. It was the 1990s in Calgary, and accepting their sexuality wasn't easy for either of them.