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For visitors of Rules of Civility and The Plot, Joanna Hershon’s A Twin Inheritance is definitely an engrossing book of love, friendship, betrayal, and class—and their reverberations across decades.   Fall 1962: Edward Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley fulfill within their final-year at Harvard. Edward is far-removed from Hugh’s fortunate childhood like a Boston Brahmin, however his desire and drive outpace Hugh’s ambivalence about their own existence. An unlikely friendship is formed by these two young men, bolstered with an intense distributed need to transcend their conditions.