The Three Incestuous Sisters

Audrey Niffenegger began writing this novel but interrupted it to write THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, which sold more than two million copies. In what then became her second novel (and is equally influenced by magical realism), THE THREE INCESTUOUS SISTERS, Niffenegger tells the sad story of Bettine, Clothilde, and Ophile, three sisters who share a lonely childhood. When they grow up, Bettine and Ophile both fall in love with the same man--Paris, the lighthouse-keeper's son--but it's Bettine who runs off with him and bears his child. The story is illustrated with very Gothic aquatints by the author, and in her afterword to the book, Niffenegger writes about their creation.