I've been listening to this book on my way to and from work and I'm spellbound by the writer's ability to craft a tale. I first read Wally Lamb back in the day when he published his first book, She's Come Undone, and enjoyed it.
But it was no The Hour I First Believed.
What I adore about this story is that it's a work of historical fiction - contemporary historical fiction: its fictional characters (Caelum and Maureen Quirk) are, according to the NY Times Book Review, living in the midst of:
"major events (the Columbine High School shootings, the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina) and weighty issues (motherhood, marriage, alienation, psychological trauma, drug addiction, chaos theory, prison reform, grief, the connection between ancestry and identity — to name just a few)".
I can't begin to do this book justice with my words, so go here and read about it from someone who talks books for a living.
Tomorrow, I'll talk more about why I'm so attached to this book.
