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Sisters by Daisy Johnson

Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time.

Two sisters born ten months apart become so enmeshed in each other that it's hard to know where one begins and the other ends, where fantasy ends and reality begins especially when the world is inexplicable in so many ways... The younger is bullied at school and, in attempting to protect her, the older is electrocuted in an accident. The sister who lives on does not seem able to wrap her head around the death imagining her dead sister continuing to live until she  actually does return from the dead in a way. The sisters had made a pact in life, the older one who was as protective as she was domineering demanding that the younger promise that if only one of them were to survive, it would be get her, and in death, she came to inhabit her younger sister's body, virtually obliterating her.