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I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb

By Wally Lamb

Release Date: 2009-03-17

Genre: Family Fiction & Literature

4.5 (758 ratings)
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#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection

"Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It’s hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget."—USA Today

Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. Dominick is forced to care for his brother as well as confront the dark family secrets and pain he has buried deep within himself—a journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue-collar New England town to Sicily’s Mount Etna, the birthplace of his grandfather and namesake. Coming to terms with his life and the generational trauma of his lineage, Dominick struggles to find forgiveness and finally rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his troubled twin.

I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told family saga of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal—an unforgettable masterpiece.  

I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb

By Wally Lamb

Release Date: 2009-03-17

Genre: Family Fiction & Literature

4.5 (758 ratings)
Read Download
#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection

"Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It’s hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget."—USA Today

Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. Dominick is forced to care for his brother as well as confront the dark family secrets and pain he has buried deep within himself—a journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue-collar New England town to Sicily’s Mount Etna, the birthplace of his grandfather and namesake. Coming to terms with his life and the generational trauma of his lineage, Dominick struggles to find forgiveness and finally rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his troubled twin.

I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told family saga of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal—an unforgettable masterpiece.  

More by Wally Lamb

We Are Water

She's Come Undone

I Know This Much Is True

The River Is Waiting (Oprah's Book Club)

The Hour I First Believed

Wishin' and Hopin'

I'll Take You There

I'll Fly Away

The Wally Lamb Fiction Collection

Nous sommes l'eau

Felix Funicello et le miracle des nichons

La Puissance des vaincus

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