"I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since."

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About Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman is an American novelist and journalist. She is the author of The Submission and A Door in the Earth, and previously worked as a reporter for The New York Times.

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