The story slowly connects the story of a ten-year old boy, Byron, trying to correct the unhappiness in his mother’s life in 1972 with that of Jim, a lonely middle-aged man beset with obsessive compulsive disorder in the current time. In other ways the plot elements felt a bit too “precious.” So many passages shone with the special aura of truth. I was charmed and emotionally wrenched many times with this coming of age tale combined with that of a middle-aged man trying to evolve past his mental illness. I've had this book from Netgalley for awhile and like the slacker boss that I am I'm just now getting to it. Then the ending comes around and I ended up liking the book. I kept picking it up and making myself read. Usually I like darker reads, but dang this book read slow.
It ends up all tying into the story but it's a bumpy ride. There is an alternating viewpoint from current time of a man learning to live outside the mental hospital on his own. Then an accident happens and it changes that whole summer and the rest of all their lives. Clever books only have words."ĭuring that car ride Bryan sees his watch go back in time those two seconds. I've never read a book from start to finish." "Although your father is a very clever man, of course. He buys her a new Jaguar so they can impress the other families in the snooty area they live in. He comes home on weekends so she can wash his clothes. He calls to make sure that no one is there with her every day. So she takes a shortcut through Digby Road, that bad part of town that his father has forbidden her to go.īryan's father has set ways that he wants his wife to act while he works away from home. On the way to school that morning that Bryan thinks the time is being added his mom is running late taking his sister and Bryan to school. You could take one step too many and fall over the edge of a cliff. It's the difference between something happening and something not happening. James knows all kinds of facts so Bryon becomes obsessed with the fact. Byron Hemming's friend James informs him that two seconds are being added to the year.
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