(http://us.macmillan.com/myrealchildren/jowalton)
Patricia Cowen sits in a nursing
home suffering dementia, but ironically remembers both of her lives that she’s
lived out parallel to each other. Her life diverged at a moment when a young
scholar proposes to her and she either said yes or no. In each timeline,
history has unfolded a little differently. One is a world where JFK was never
shot and nuclear disarmament ushers an age of peace. In her other life, nuclear
strikes have created a more radioactive and harsher, albeit still liveable,
world. This novel shows how the larger political sphere can affect people on a
deeply personal level. Written with meditative prose, this novel concentrates
on the relationships between characters that will leave you missing them when
you close the book.
Interesting... I'd like to read this book!
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