I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. . . .

One of the most acclaimed novels of our time, Wally Lamb's I Know This Much Is True is a story of alienation and connection, devastation and renewal, at once joyous, heartbreaking, poignant, mystical, and powerfully, profoundly human.

She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishin' and Hoping, and We Are Water are among Wally Lamb's five New York Times bestselling novels. She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, his first two works of fiction, were both #1 New York Times bestsellers and Oprah's Book Club choices. Couldn't Keep It to Myself, I'll Fly Away, and You Don't Know Me are three volumes of essays by students in Lamb's writing workshop at York Correctional Prison in Connecticut, where he has volunteered for two decades as a facilitator. He splits his time between Connecticut and New York.