Reviews

A Tale of an Unexpected Twin by Les Schofield

When We Were Twins
By Danuta Hinc
Plamen Press
232 pages

Good novelists write stories for readers to be heartily entertained. Exceptional novelists write stories for readers to become deeply thoughtful witnesses.

Danuta Hinc is an exceptional storyteller as proven by her relentless quest for witnesses in When We Were Twins. That she is good at storytelling is on display in the opening chapter where the subject and setting of her novel — the September 11 attack on the Twin Towers in New York City – tempts American readers to quickly set it down, but she skillfully keeps us reading. Hinc crosses the line from good to exceptional in the same scene by twining the terror and tenderness unexpectedly born in one of the boxcutter-wielders on the doomed flight. It’s a daring scene. She bravely calls us to witness the terrorist’s emotions that both repel and attract us at the same time. Much to our surprise, we step to her side and take a look.

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