Fiction
One Brother Shy
by Terry Fallis
From the two-time winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour --a funny, tender novel about a young man searching for his twin brother. Alex MacAskill, 25, painfully shy, was raised by a single mother. He never knew his father, not even his name. When she dies, an envelope left for Alex reveals a secret that instantly changes his life and sets him on a search for the identical twin brother he never knew he had. Eventually reunited with his twin Matthew Patterson, living in London, the brothers are launched on a mission to find their father. An initially rocky but ultimately happy reunion of father and sons leaves Alex with one final task. He must deal with "Gabriel" a code name for an event that traumatized him in his high school years. It is too funny and humiliating to spoil it for you here. One Brother Shy is a poignant and comic tale of identical twins separated at birth, yet testifying to the strength of family ties and the healing power of humour.
