The Twin

Gerbrand Bakker, 2006

Date read: 9/6/25

Wow. Wow. This novel was incredible!

Although it never says it outright, this is a novel about LGBT rejection by a parent. As the black sheep of the family, who is estranged from almost all of my relatives, I 100 percent got the relationship between Helmer and his father. If one of my parents needed end of life care, I would do it, but I imagine it would be similar to his experience with his father. Cold, impersonal, torturous.

I can only imagine this novel was even better in the original. The names were a bit of a challenge though, as often happens in foreign novels.