![]() ![]() His girlfriend, Joy, isn't bringing any joy to his life. When he's not trying to trace back to the beginning of Thomas's illness-Was it when Dominick refused to be his roommate in college? Or when Ray threw Thomas down the stairs after catching him and Ma having a tea party?-he's trying to deal with other problems in the present. He and Thomas never knew who their real father was, and Ray was often abusive, taping Thomas's hands together or pretending he was Harry Potter and locking him in a cupboard under the stairs. He thinks back to growing up in the late 1950s/early 60s with his brother, his Ma (who is now dead of breast cancer), and Ray, his stepdad. This incident prompts a lot of self-reflection in Dominick. ![]() Patel, to find a way to release his brother. Dominick wants him out, so he works with Thomas's social worker, Lisa Sheffer, and doctor, Dr. Since a library is a place of quiet and knowledge, not self-dismemberment, Thomas is declared a danger and sent to the Hatch Forensic Institute, a mental hospital. Also, Thomas only has one hand, since he chops the other one off in the middle of a library as a warning to America to stop its warmongering ways.Īnd that's just the first chapter of I Know This Much is True. How can you tell them apart? It's easy: Thomas is the one ranting about Communists out to get him and Dominick is the one with anger-management issues. Our narrator, Dominick Birdsey, has a twin brother, Thomas. ![]()
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