{"product_id":"book-6247","title":"Twin","description":"\u003cp\u003eA heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Allen Shawn and his twin sister, Mary, were two years old, Mary began exhibiting signs of what would be diagnosed years later as autism. Understanding Mary and making her life a happy one appeared to be impossible for the Shawns. With almost no warning, her parents sent Mary to a residential treatment center when she was eight years old. She never lived at home again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty years later, as he probed the sources of his anxieties in \u003cem\u003eWish I Could Be There\u003c\/em\u003e, Allen realized that his fate was inextricably linked to his sister’s and that their natures were far from being different.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwin\u003c\/em\u003e highlights the difficulties American families coping with autism faced in the 1950s. Allen also examines the secrets and family dramas as his father, William, became editor of the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eTwin\u003c\/em\u003e reconstructs a parallel narrative for the two siblings, who experienced such divergent fates yet shared talents and proclivities. Wrenching, honest, understated, and poetic, \u003cem\u003eTwin\u003c\/em\u003e is at heart about the mystery of being inextricably bonded to someone who can never be truly understood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49312698106160,"sku":"BD6247","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49312698171696,"sku":"ZE6247","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49312698237232,"sku":"ZM6247","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/6247-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775694099","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-6247","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}