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Just the Facts nonfiction book discussion group

Please join us for our discussion of Twin: A Memoir by Allen Shawn. In this moving memoir, Allen Shawn focuses on the relationship between himself and his twin sister Mary, who early in life was diagnosed with autism and mental retardation. Institutionalized at the age of eight, Mary was absent from Shawn’s life, and he writes of how the absence of his twin affected his life, and his relationship with his family.

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