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The Twin

  • Writer: Kathy Miller
    Kathy Miller
  • Sep 6
  • 1 min read

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.

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