![]() Niles enjoys the game as a fun distraction, but Holland uses it for more devious purposes and as their family is plagued by more tragedy, the psychological impact of the turmoil within the family unit comes to the surface. The ‘game’ involves them pretending to be other beings – animals or even plants – literally placing their own minds into the mind of something else in a form of astral projection of the imagination. As a coping mechanism, they play a ‘Great Game’, taught to them by their Russian grandmother Ada. As such, they are left to their own devices, with no adult to supervise or guide them. Their father died the previous year, the result of an inexplicable accident in the apple cellar, and his death has left their mother bed-ridden in a state of mental shock. Holland was his own person, a loner and who was there could do anything about that? ![]() ![]() ![]() Niles found Holland strange, unpliant, and distant. Holland is the sly, secretive instigator, while Niles is the docile follower. ![]() As with most fictional twins, they have a close bond, bordering on telepathy, despite having very different dispositions. The novel is told from the perspective of two identical twin boys, Niles and Holland Perry. The Other unravels over the summer of 1935 on a farm in the fictional bucolic New England community of Pequot Landing. ![]()
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