Judy Garland, ginger love1998
by Nicole Cooley
After a tragic pregnancy leaves Alice Carson bereft and unmoored, she turns for comfort not to her husband, but rather to her estranged identical twin Madeline. While Alice, calm and serious, is the older sister, born five minutes earlier, the explosive and wild Madeline has dominated the pair's solitary lives since childhood.
From birth, Alice and Madeline shared a private, imaginary world - one colored by the larger-than-life tale of the dazzling and tragic MGM star Judy Garland. Playing out their deepest fantasies in the empty swimming pool of the cheap New Orleans motel they called home, the young Alice and Madeline transform themselves into Judy Garland and her "baby sister" Ginger Love.
The twins' enchanted world is shattered the day their mother abandons them, vanishing with...