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Apr 03, 2020celinar rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
When his schizophrenic twin brother Thomas does some ugly damage to himself in a public library on the eve of the Persian Gulf War, Connecticut everyman Dominick sets off on a journey of self-discovery and change. There are flashbacks to the brothers' postwar upbringing and even farther to their grandfather's immigration story. Wally Lamb's prose is intensely readable. I could not stop turning the pages. As long and leisurely as this book was and as rewarding the ending, I was a little sorry to finish it. At nearly 900 pages, it's a good narrative plunge for these anxious times.