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'This Body' Is Packed With Personality — Maybe Too Much

Edgar Cantero's madcap new novel stars a brother-and-sister pair of private eyes with wildly differing personalities — who just happen to share the same body. (There's an explanation. Sort of.)
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Okay, so I'm just gonna lay the nut of this out for you right at the beginning. The protagonist of Edgar Cantero's new novel, This Body's Not Big Enough For Both Of Us, is A.Z. Kimrean, a private detective. And A.Z. Kimrean the private detective is/are two different people — Adrian Kimrean and Zooey Kimrean — both inhabiting the same body.

No, not conjoined twins. No, not multiple personalities. In this case, Adrian and Zooey are brother and sister, but two wholly and completely different people (right down to

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