Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a guide at Highgate Cemetery. In addition to her bestselling debut novel The Time Traveler's Wife, she is the author of two illustrated novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. She lives in Chicago.
We were young, we were full of testosterone, and we believed in what we were doing. We thought it was important. Despite all the protests going on in the United States, that was water off our back. We were fighting for each other, and if somebody went down, we pulled out all the stops to rescue him.
Two young women -- college dropouts, identical twins from Chicago -- inherit a London apartment from their mother's twin sister, in Audrey Niffenegger's novel "Her Fearful Symmetry." That the apartment is adjacent to Highgate Cemetery is not a coincidence, as this is a ghost story, melded to a mystery and to a love story, complete with secrets and ghosts aplenty.
We were young, we were full of testosterone, and we believed in what we were doing. We thought it was important. Despite all the protests going on in the United States, that was water off our back. We were fighting for each other, and if somebody went down, we pulled out all the stops to rescue him. 
