I Know This Much Is True

Oprah's Book Club Pick

Every waking moment of his life Dominick Birdsey feels split in two - he is the sane twin to a schizophrenic brother. Dominick is bound to his brother by love and resentment, anger, and fear. From childhood, he fights for both separation and belonging in a house dominated by their stepfather Ray. This story is a search for identity, love and wholeness, and for answers to the dark secrets of his family. It journeys from a blue-collar town in New England to the foothills of Sicily's Mount Etna where Dominick's vengefully proud grandfather was born. And in his grandfather's handwritten memoirs, Dominick finds confessions and a legacy of contrition. Filled with richly-drawn, memorable characters this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light our deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, and our struggle to survive at all costs.