Description
The protagonist, Dominick, is disturbed when his identical twin brother, Thomas, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. Dominick is also disturbed by the similarities between himself and Thomas, which he attributes to their shared schizophrenia.
Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.