The End of the Twins

<p>Saul Diskin's extraordinary memoir is rich with unique and wonderful intimacy-the intimacy of twinship. For me this made that closest of bonds come alive in a way no other book I've read has succeeded in doing. Diskin makes one feel like a twin see the world through a twin's eyes suffer with him in a way that is at times almost unbearably close and poignant. One becomes immersed in the life and death struggle. The medical detail is wonderfully well-done as are all the relationships. The peculiar and overwhelming nature of twinship is brought out in a way that's both uncannily spirited and wholly down-to-earth; completely unsentimental. The reader participates at every point and on every page in an intimacy that he knows only death can end.</p><p>-JOHN BAYLEY author of Elegy for Iris</p><p>...you have captured the essence of the twin relationship more eloquently than anyone else I have ever read. </p><p>Nancy Segal author of Entwined Lives Indivisible by Two and Someone Else's Twin.</p><p>What is it like to lose your mirror-image your other half your secret sharer? The End of the Twins is an arresting memoir that evokes the mysteries of twinship and the irrevocability of loss.</p><p>-ERICA JONG author of Fear of Flying and Becoming Light</p><p>A moving account of a unique bereavement from which we can all learn about love and loss.</p><p>-HAROLD S. KUSHNER author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People</p>