I read Lamb's book She's Come Undone, twice. I was stunned that a man could write so of a woman's experience. This title was recommended as a favorite by my daughter's boyfriend. A sensitive soul, for sure. ( )

Fantastic.

While most have raved about this story which is soon to hit the big screen, I found it overloaded with unnecessary details, back story and a litany of characters unrelated to the plot. Having attempted a couple of others by this author, it's clear his style appeals to others, though I'm not one of them. DNF! ( )

Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "Required some online reviews to recall, but. . . .remembering enjoying and some of the details. Another novel that explores a family's painful "stuff", and decent people trying to cope, even as they falter and are redeemed. Interesting relationship, too, of identical twin sons." Observation here in 2022 is that there's an amazing amount of the life challenges thrown at ths main character of this book. ( )

This is mainly the story of twin brothers, one who is in and out of institutions due to mental illness, and one who feels he must always look after him and protect him as best he can.
I very much enjoyed the first part of the book which kind of bounced back and forth between the here and now, and flash backs to when the boys were growing up with an abusive step father and a mom who was basically afraid of her own shadow, Towards the middle and into the last half when much of the book was taken over by memoirs written by the long dead grandfather my enjoyment began to wane a bit. I also would have liked less psycho babble from the drawn out visits with the psychiatrist who was constantly asking for things (Americanisms ) to be explained. Although some of the secrets revealed in the grandfather's memoirs were pertinent to the story, I really feel this story could have been better told in 700 or so pages instead of needlessly dragged out into 900. ( )