Tea Cups & Tiger Claws

In Tea Cups & Tiger Claws a Prospect Park, California family saga about greed and power, haves and have-nots is told along the lives of identical triplets born in 1916. Strange enough their parents decided to dispose one of them to the highest bidder. Of course this causes grief and jealousy, split up and reunite later in life. Whereas Dorthea is raised in a shabby village, she misses a lot, but not her ambition. Her sisters are denied having contact with her or even speak of her, though raised in a mansion of glamour and privilege up a hill.
The novel's divided in three parts: Sisters as the foundation, Cousins for the interaction as teenagers and Enemies for the unavoidable deadly power games. The omniscient narrator's point of view show more changes frequently between characters, which requires your close attention. The character development is good, and I felt engaged with them. What distracted me, especially after having wrestled through the first 2 parts, is the strange punctuation, and long - comma sliced sentences. An interesting plot packed in linguistic sub-top quality. show less