I Know This Much is True Themes

It's pretty much impossible to tell the Olsen twins or those two boys from The Leftovers apart. If Mary-Kate tries to take over the world and enters into a death battle with Ashley, we'd be sc...

Crying gets a bad rap. We've heard that boys don't cry, big girls don't cry, there's no crying in baseball… Hiding your emotions is often synonymous with being tough and macho. There also seems t...

Who said, "to err is human; to forgive, divine"? It was either Alexander Pope or John Waters… Either way, it's a quote appropriate for this book.If to err is human, the characters in I Know This...

Imagine something bad happens, like you're late to the dentist or your twin brother chops his own hand off in a public library. What do you do? Blame your stepfather (because he was so abusive)Blam...

Unless you're Robin Thicke and you can't seem to remember whether you wrote "Blurred Lines" or not, your memories are a big part of who you are. But just as your DNA comes from your parents (and th...

When it comes to I Know This Much is True, we mean madness more in a One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest way instead of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde way. Thomas Birdsey is dealing with a severe...

There are almost as many variations of each individual religion as there are different religions. In I Know This Much is True, different characters have different views of Christianity. Some are in...

Vanilla is a fine flavor of ice cream, but not if it's the only flavor. (If there has to be one flavor to rule us all, we nominate Ben and Jerry's Everything But the…, which is the melting pot of...

We thought about talking about the theme of family in I Know This Much is True, but this is a story more about playing favorites within the family than it is about family values. In this book, Domi...

Trying to help a relative or friend with mental illness is hard enough because of their illness, but then there's all the bureaucracy and red-tape to deal with. It's almost impossible to get an acc...