I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

Sometimes I get tired of heavy duty reading, and I pick up something light and fun. Wally Lamb provided me with 900 pages of escape reading in his wonderful novel I Know This Much Is True. He tells the story of twin brothers, one of whom is schizophrenic and an incredible burden to his twin. A dysfunctional family, broken marriage, career problems, and a couple of mysteries about parentage give Lamb plenty to write about, but I do think the book could have been edited down. There were times when I felt that the author was deliberately putting off getting to the story.