I Know this Much is True Author:Lamb, Wally At 40, Dominick Birdsley's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear; by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother heboth deeply loves and resents, and the past they shared with his adoptive father. Ray, a spit and polish ex-Navy man. and their long suffering mother, Concettina, a timid, self-conscious woman. — Born in th... more »e waning moments of 1949, and the opening minutes of 1950, the boys are physical mirror images who grow into separate, yet connected entities. But Dominick's talent for survival- his escape from Ray's wrath and the genetic fate that is Thomas'- will be put to the ultimate test wwhen Thomas, a Bible spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives.« less