Sitting Opposite My Brother Author:David Bergen Sitting Opposite My Brother demonstrates skill and candour unusual in a new writer. David Bergen is an accomplished storyteller who probes the ways in which unexpected life events and changing priorities can transform even the most conventional of relationships. Sympathetically drawn, his characters refuse pretence when forced to set aside tradi... more »tional values, creating their own moral codes when "other things besides genes... skip merrily into our systems."« less