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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Dominick, Birdsey, York with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'I Know This Much Is True'
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book titled I Know This Much Is True.
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conversations.value: I Know This Much Is True: The novel takes place in Three Rivers, Connecticut.\nDominick Birdsey's identical twin, Thomas, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.\nWith medication, he can function properly and work at a coffee stand, but occasionally he has severe episodes of his illness.\nThinking he is making a sacrificial protest that will stop the war in the Middle East, Thomas cuts off his own hand in a public library.\nDominick sees him through the ensuing decision not to attempt to reattach the hand, and makes efforts on his behalf to free him from what he knows to be an inadequate and depressing hospital for the dangerously mentally ill.\nIn the process, Dominick reviews his own difficult life as Thomas's normal brother, his marriage to his gorgeous ex-wife, which ended after their only child died of SIDS, and his ongoing hostility toward his stepfather.\nDominick also displays classic symptoms of PTSD, as a result of stressors in his adult life.\nFirst in Thomas's interests, and then for his own sake, he sees a therapist, dr Rubina Patel, an Indian psychologist, employed by the hospital.\nShe helps Dominick come to understand Thomas's illness better and the family's accommodations or reactions to it.\nIn the course of Thomas's treatment, Dominick is covertly informed of sexual abuse taking place in the hospital, and helps to expose the perpetrators.\nHe succeeds in getting Thomas released, but Thomas soon dies, apparently by suicide.\nAfter Thomas's death, Dominick discovers the identity of their birth father, who was part African American and part Native American—a secret their mother had shared with Thomas, but not with him.\nIn the midst of this, Dominick is also reading the autobiography of his grandfather, Italian/Sicilian-born Domenico Tempesta, which discloses details about the legacy of twins in their family.\nDominick learns about himself and his mother through learning about his grandfather.\nHe also learns that his live-in girlfriend, Joy, has been seeing a gentleman on the side, who is her bisexual half-uncle, and has also let him watch her and Dominick during sex on previous occasions.\nShe is also HIV-positive, having contracted it from said secret lover.\nShe asks Dominick to raise her baby if she dies.\nAt first he resists, but later, after having found his way back into a relationship with his ex-wife, Dessa, they decide to remarry each other and adopt Joy's daughter.\nThe book ends with Dominick able to cope with the considerable loss, failure, and sorrow in his personal and family history.
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book titled I Know This Much Is True about Dominick, Birdsey, York with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: I Know This Much Is True: The novel takes place in Three Rivers, Connecticut.\nDominick Birdsey's identical twin, Thomas, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.\nWith medication, he can function properly and work at a coffee stand, but occasionally he has severe episodes of his illness.\nThinking he is making a sacrificial protest that will stop the war in the Middle East, Thomas cuts off his own hand in a public library.\nDominick sees him through the ensuing decision not to attempt to reattach the hand, and makes efforts on his behalf to free him from what he knows to be an inadequate and depressing hospital for the dangerously mentally ill.\nIn the process, Dominick reviews his own difficult life as Thomas's normal brother, his marriage to his gorgeous ex-wife, which ended after their only child died of SIDS, and his ongoing hostility toward his stepfather.\nDominick also displays classic symptoms of PTSD, as a result of stressors in his adult life.\nFirst in Thomas's interests, and then for his own sake, he sees a therapist, dr Rubina Patel, an Indian psychologist, employed by the hospital.\nShe helps Dominick come to understand Thomas's illness better and the family's accommodations or reactions to it.\nIn the course of Thomas's treatment, Dominick is covertly informed of sexual abuse taking place in the hospital, and helps to expose the perpetrators.\nHe succeeds in getting Thomas released, but Thomas soon dies, apparently by suicide.\nAfter Thomas's death, Dominick discovers the identity of their birth father, who was part African American and part Native American—a secret their mother had shared with Thomas, but not with him.\nIn the midst of this, Dominick is also reading the autobiography of his grandfather, Italian/Sicilian-born Domenico Tempesta, which discloses details about the legacy of twins in their family.\nDominick learns about himself and his mother through learning about his grandfather.\nHe also learns that his live-in girlfriend, Joy, has been seeing a gentleman on the side, who is her bisexual half-uncle, and has also let him watch her and Dominick during sex on previous occasions.\nShe is also HIV-positive, having contracted it from said secret lover.\nShe asks Dominick to raise her baby if she dies.\nAt first he resists, but later, after having found his way back into a relationship with his ex-wife, Dessa, they decide to remarry each other and adopt Joy's daughter.\nThe book ends with Dominick able to cope with the considerable loss, failure, and sorrow in his personal and family history.