Twinless Twin

<p><strong>The James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel AWP Award Series Winner</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Twinless Twin</em> finds a family maimed by a troubled enigmatic son whose unspeakable actions leave the family reeling torn between moving on and searching for answers. A twin who survives their sibling twin may sometimes be plagued with lifelong feelings of loss guilt and even a strange sense of urgency--a need to live two lives in one. In this story the tragedy of the lost child reverberates through the surviving sibling and ripples through the rest of the family and beyond.</p><p>Set largely in twentieth-century America in the foothills of an unnamed mountain this insular landscape breeds rumor legend desperation daydreams and a mystery that runs deeper than the family who inhabits its woods. Raising questions regarding culpability in the face of tragedy and the responsibilities of those who remain after a family has been splintered <em>Twinless Twin</em> ultimately asks: What must be done to salvage the family their reputation and their homeplace?</p><p></p><p><strong>Dean Marshall Tuck</strong> is a writer living in eastern North Carolina with his wife and daughters. His work has been published in <em>Alaska Quarterly Review</em> <em>Epoch</em> <em>Witness Magazine</em> and elsewhere. Tuck serves on the advisory board for the <em>North Carolina Literary Review</em> and teaches writing at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro North Carolina.</p><p></p>