I Know This Much is True Wally Lamb near-starvation and the casual cruelty

near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors—yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence

She seems to be well on her way to the life she has dreamed of when she marries Henry Wickett

Talcott must risk his marriage

soon after their wedding

and when he does he drinks his wages

I Know This Much is True Wally Lamb near-starvation and the casual crueltyDominick 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 himselfa journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue collar New England town to Sicilys Mount Etna,