Dec 30, 2009

The Other | The Other

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The Plot

The Other, related through the consciousness of Niles Perry, an inmate in a mental institution, concerns the events that almost annihilated his family decades earlier. Niles and his twin brother, Holland, lived with their grandmother, mother and father, stepsister, and other relatives on a farm in a small community in Connecticut in the 1930’s. Ada, the grandmother, was a Russian gypsy with supernatural powers, including “mystic transference,” the ability to empathize so completely with another person or an animal as to feel exactly what the other...

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