Our Greatest Work: A Novel by Twins, (Hardcover)

<p> <em> <strong>OUR GREATEST WORK</strong> </em> <strong>OPENS WITH A PANIC ATTACK</strong>, a celebrity cameo, and an antique gun: Joe, an actor, is traveling from Paris to Chicago for his ten-year high school reunion, where he plans to confront his twin brother Sam, a writer.</p><p>In alternating chapters from each twin's point of view--Joe writing as Joe, Sam as Sam--we learn of the slights that started, then prolonged, their confounding estrangement. There's the fateful high school production of <em>Rent</em>. An illicit affair set to Death Cab for Cutie. A pathetic act of violence in a Florentine study-abroad apartment. All the while, a mysterious (if idiotic) childhood friend is pulling strings from behind the scenes, his motivations troublingly obscure . . .</p><p>As the reunion draws near, a tragicomic series of events conspire to bring the brothers' artistic and romantic entanglements to the fore. In a <em>Parent Trap</em>-esque twist, Joe and Sam switch places, albeit to less-than-heartwarming results. When our protagonists finally collide at the reunion on the banks of Lake Michigan, they're forced to answer an inevitable question: <em>Can either of us truly live while the other is still alive?</em></p><p>Inspired as much by Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet as '90s sex comedies, the Eichners' novel is at once a moving portrait of brotherhood, an antic satire of the entertainment industry, and a profound exploration of what it means to be an original when your very existence threatens to make you redundant.</p>

• Our Greatest Work: A Novel by Twins, (Hardcover)
• Author: Sam Eichner
• ISBN: 9781636143194
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-11-10
• Page Count: 296