Kevin St. Jarre returns to Maine for Books in Boothbay on September 11. His latest novel The Twin is the fictional retelling of the story of Jesus of Nazareth from the point of view of Thomas Didymus, known to most as Doubting Thomas. The narrative draws upon the belief of many that Jesus traveled to Kashmir during the “missing” years of his youth, studied Buddhism, and then returned to Galilee to begin his ministry.Styled as a document translated by a professor of classics from the University of Cincinnati, who is obviously inept and an egotist, who includes his notes and footnotes throughout. The novel explores the characters, stories, and miracles from the Bible, and from other texts such as the Gnostic gospels, but also attempts to fill in some of the gaps…of which there are many.
Kevin earned his MFA in Creative
Writing, with a concentration in fiction, from University of Southern Maine’s
Stonecoast program. He has studied at the Norman Mailer Writers Center on Cape
Cod with Sigrid Nunez and David Black. He has worked as a teacher, a professor, a newspaper reporter, an international
corporate consultant, and led a combat intelligence team in the first Gulf War.
Kevin's previous novels include Celestine, as well as Aliens, Drywall, and a Unicycle.
