She’d steadfastly refused to take the girls back to Italy for reasons never clear. Rose had adopted Julie and Janice as toddlers, after their mother and father died in a car crash in Italy. Her mother has almost certainly left something of value there. The letter is written in Umberto’s hand, dictated by Rose, with instructions that Julie is to travel to Siena, and to take the key to a bank in Palazzo Tolomei. Umberto tells Julie that this is her birth name she became Julie Jacobs only after coming to America.
The passport is in the name of Giulietta Tolomei. He privately passes a package to Julie, containing a letter, a passport and a key. But Umberto has surprising news of his own. Julie is the older twin, by four minutes, but Janice is the one people notice, “Whenever we entered a room together, all spotlights would immediately turn to my sister and although I was standing there right beside her, I just became another head in the audience.Ī lawyer arrives with the unexpected news that Rose has left all to sister Janice, instead of splitting the estate. Julie greets her sister with the hardly warm, “Can I help you strip the house of valuables, or do you prefer to work alone?” The relationship between the two is thorny. Julie returns to the home of her youth to find her twin already there. Rose was 82, but the news still comes as a shock. Julie is working with students at a Shakespeare summer camp when Umberto, who has worked for her great-aunt Rose for as long as Julie can remember, shows up and tells her that the woman who raised her has died. Julie Jacobs, 25, is less well-anchored than her more driven, outgoing twin, Janice.
Yet it would be a disservice to describe “Juliet” simply as a retelling of “Romeo and Juliet.” Anne Fortier has plumbed the history of the tale and spends her novel spinning a richer story. Raiding a Shakespearean tragedy for a plotline - for a novel, the theater or a movie - is a practice with an honorable history. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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