Help: Two Back Cover Blurbs!

Fellow purveyors of prose, I have two back cover blurbs and I would love your feedback. Both are for the same memoir.

Option 1: 168 Words

A twin brother is a difficult secret to keep, even if you are only keeping it from yourself.

Twin brothers Matt and Seth Cox were born minutes apart, but their worlds could not have been more different. While Matt grew up in suburban Portland, a medical accident left Seth a permanent resident of a hospital for medically fragile children, without the ability to see, hear, or control his body. The same accident left Matt terrified of his twin and doing everything to avoid his other half. As the brothers approach different versions of adulthood, Matt makes a desperate attempt to rebuild a relationship with Seth before it's too late.

Through rooftop gardens, hospital bed conversations, a night alone in the woods, and a host of deeply human characters, Forgotten Twin is a memoir about choosing presence in the face of the things we can’t repair. It’s a sibling journey that answers difficult but necessary questions about life, faith, trauma, and the grace that sustains us along the way.

Option 2: 183 Words

How do you face your fear when the thing you fear most is facing your twin?

Twin brothers Matt and Seth Cox were born minutes apart, but their worlds could not have been more different.  While Matt grew up in a suburban home, a medical accident left Seth a permanent resident of a hospital, without the ability to see, hear, or control his body. That same accident left Matt terrified of his twin and doing everything in his power to avoid his other half.

But a twin brother is a difficult secret to keep, even if you are only keeping it from yourself. As the brothers approach different versions of adulthood, Matt makes a desperate attempt to rebuild a relationship with Seth before it's too late. In a story that is tender and uplifting, Forgotten Twin explores one brother’s journey to reconnect with his twin and understand the meaning of a life filled with pain, a journey that ultimately answers difficult but necessary questions about life, faith, trauma, the things we can’t repair, and the grace that sustains us along the way.

The target audience is Christian and college-educated. May have read Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller, All My Knotted Up Life by Beth Moore, or a little Glynnon Doyle Melton or Rachel Harld Evens.

Thanks, everyone! This community is great and I appreciate your wisdom and feedback. Y'all are way smarter than Facebook and way nicer (and wiser) than Twitter or blue sky!

Thanks,

Matt