Twin: A Memoir Audiobook

Quotes

• “Deeply compassionate…A book that combines the sympathetic insight of Oliver Sacks’ writings with Joan Didion’s autobiographical candor and Mary Karr’s sense of familial dynamics—a book that leaves the reader with a haunting sense of how relationships between brothers and sisters, and parents and children, can irrevocably bend the arc of an individual’s life, how childhood dynamics can shape one’s apprehension of the world…This deeply affecting book, like the author’s music, is both a love letter to his twin sister and an intimate reconstruction of the toppling emotional dominoes that her institutionalization set in play in their family more than half a century ago.”

  — New York Times

• “Unflinching and compelling…movingly conveys the solace of reconnecting with his lost sister and delving into ‘how people bear and express the imprints left on them by others.’”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Whether he’s remembering Mary, the deaths of his parents, or his studies with Nadia Boulanger and other great musicians, Shawn writes poetically with honesty and empathy.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Shawn’s moving work brings us closer to understanding a diagnosis that, by its nature, challenges family bonds.”

  — Booklist