I Know This Much Is True

I Know This Much Is True#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

#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 dark 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 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 story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--an unforgettable masterpiece.

--Entertainment Weekly

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/08/2008
ISBN: 9780061469084
Pages: 901
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.70d

Review Citations: People Weekly 12/01/2008 pg. 61

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 25614 / I Know This Much Is True
Reading Level: 4.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 46