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In a big house that is always a little too full, four girls grow like different flowers in the same garden.
Lila sings, sometimes a little too much.
Blue watches the world without quite knowing what her place in it is.
Iris lives to be seen.
Viola tries to hold together what she was lucky enough to find and does not want to lose.
As winter wraps itself around the city, their lives intertwine through theater performances, whispered secrets, barely-spoken loves, and the constant feeling that growing up means losing something while, at the same time, finding yourself.
When Blue meets Timothy, for the first time someone looks at her as if it might truly be possible for her to be herself.
But every family hides wounds, and every change comes at a cost.
Who We Were is the story of who we were before we understood who we would become.
A tender and aching novel about identity, love, art, and the way the people who raise us stay inside us forever.