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 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.

Author: Wally Lamb
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/08/2008
Pages: 928
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780061469084

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


Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 12/01/2008 pg. 61

About the Author
Lamb, Wally: -

Wally Lamb is the author of five New York Times bestselling novels: She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishin' and Hopin', and We Are Water. His first two works of fiction, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were both #1 New York Times bestsellers and selections of Oprah's Book Club. Lamb edited Couldn't Keep It to Myself, I'll Fly Away, and You Don't Know Me, three volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Connecticut, where he has been a volunteer facilitator for two decades. He lives in Connecticut.