And how we think depends on where we are in the equation. Even though you most likely don’t know them – even though it doesn’t touch you directly – it is a shared fragility, our humanity. This book is a car crash you can not look away from.Īnd like a car crash, you will be forced to reflect on your life as you witness the decimation of others. The reason we can’t help but look at car crashes, the ways it plays with our minds, the ways tragedy changes our view of things. There must be some psychology about this reflex – the need to know mixed with the instinct to remain ignorant. Like all the characters in the book, who also don’t know the secret the one guy keeps buried, but also got hints, that dared to imagine yet couldn’t quite ask outright, you are deeply, deeply compelled to reveal this mystery – even as you subconsciously shield yourself from it. This mystery – and my burning need to KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, even as I knew that it would be awful and make me cry and I might regret finding out – is what truly made this book stand out from the crowd. There is a hook that will dig pretty deep into your subconscious, the mysterious past of one of the main characters, that will gently pull you, then drag you, then rip you out of the water as you struggle to regain your sense of reality. It’s thick, but it manages to flow smoothly from one section to the next. Without spoilers – let me say this book is excellent. The majority of this review will be in the spoiler section – down below – because I need to talk about this book, ramble and rave and rant.
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