I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb

I Know This Much Is True

By Wally Lamb

  • Release Date: 2009-03-17
  • Genre: Family Fiction & Literature
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 756 Ratings
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Description

#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.  

Reviews

  • Long and laborious read

    3
    By MissRx929
    The first half of this book felt disorganized and repetitive. It improved during the second half but overall was much too long for the story it told. It’d skip this one, there are better reads worth your time.

  • Excellent story

    5
    By nooranai
    I absolutely love this book! I grew up with a mom who was bipolar and a brother who was almost my other half took his life! It just made me think so much of my life! The ending was beautiful! Just like my mom’s life and who knows maybe my brother’s!

  • One of the greats of all time

    5
    By kaykaybean13
    Wally LAMB can write like the mastery writer imaginative and creative complex dynamic human experience can really be. He doesn’t hold back the ugliest the horrors or the abuses and oppressions that some are causing to others out of plain social status bigotry and ignorance but he can come to express the beauty the empathy the compassion and courage humanity can be as well

  • I know this much is true

    5
    By jbesket
    The authors writing style is authentic which made this book such an easy read and so enjoyable

  • I know this much is true

    5
    By sesp0588
    Took me many many chapters to get into it. It was a very good book in the end.

  • Worth every moment and every page

    5
    By CJ-Coleman
    Amazing storyteller. There were times I had to “rest” from reading this book but was quickly drawn back and anxious to continue. Interesting and multifaceted characters, a bit of history and heartfelt life lessons. It’s a long and sometimes painful story but well worth every moment and every page. At times had me wondering when it would end but was disappointed when it actually did. Highly recommend. I’ll read more of Wally Lambs books.

  • Wonderful book!

    5
    By Ribar5
    It took me a while to get into this book. It was one of those I picked up and put down quite a few times in the beginning, but when I finally settled into it, I couldn’t put it down. There’s a lot to be learned from this book, from our history.

  • I Know This Much Is True

    5
    By katsews
    I loved this book even more on my second reading! Wally Lamb is a very talented author!

  • I LOVED THIS BOOK

    5
    By Chr1stymaerend0n
    It was worth every single page!

  • Don't stop!

    5
    By CollegeStudent92
    Amazing book. It took me a long time to get into it but the excellent writing and knowing it was my mother's favorite book kept me going back to it. It is an awesome story with complex and interesting characters. Recommend for all.

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