Twin
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Allen Shawn
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780670022373
Subjects: Autistic people; Patients; Schizoaffective disorders; Twins; Biography
Description: When Allen Shawn and his twin sister, Mary, were two, she began exhibiting signs of what would be diagnosed many years later as autism. At the age of eight, with almost no warning, her parents sent Mary to a residential treatment center, to never live at home again. Fifty years later, Shawn realized that his fate was inextricably linked to his sister's, and that their natures were far from being different.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lost; title: July 2005; title: Together; title: Summer; title: Things not seen; title: Cracks between the keys; title: Dislocations; title: Binary stars; title: Finding words; title: Autism; title: At Briarcliff.