This moving and contemporary portrait of two brothers' estrangement and journey to reconciliation addresses the larger themes of family and sexual identity. It is the story of second-generation American Jews, identical twin brothers Jacob and Jonathan, who have chosen radically different lives. Jacob is a gay activist in Boston, while Jonathan lives the strict life of an Orthodox student at a Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Weaving together themes of sibling rivalry, assimilation, the Holocaust, and AIDS, The Same Embrace is a stunning debut novel that depicts a quintessentially American search for belonging.