{"product_id":"i-know-this-much-is-true-9780061469084","title":"I Know This Much Is True","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e#1 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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.\" -- \u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Know This Much Is Tru\u003c\/em\u003ee is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--an unforgettable masterpiece. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLamb, Wally:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eWally Lamb\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of five \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling novels: \u003cem\u003eShe's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishin' and Hopin', \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWe Are Water\u003c\/em\u003e. His first two works of fiction, \u003cem\u003eShe's Come Undone \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eI Know This Much Is True\u003c\/em\u003e, were both #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestsellers and selections of Oprah's Book Club. Lamb edited \u003cem\u003eCouldn't Keep It to Myself\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eI'll Fly Away\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eYou Don't Know Me\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 and New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50603504926994,"sku":"9780061469084","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fc7ed26b-1f7f-4d60-bf59-216a4a59fffb.jpg?v=1732247238","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-know-this-much-is-true-9780061469084","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}