And what do we learn? Loss messes people up, but they may retain just enough humanity to avert complete self-destruction. A sample: "I paused, like falling into a bottomless pool of sadness." Now imagine 1,000 variations on that sentence. The audio performances are all strong, but the book is overwritten, repetitious and largely stagnant. It's one hour of tragedy, six hours of grief and misery and people mistreating one another (and claiming they simply can't help themselves), and then an hour of not-quite resolution. I think I'll wait for it to come out on video. I believe they made a movie out of this book and it is coming out in November 2007. The author set the scene so it could have ended any number of ways. It had the potential of being far more exciting. The book didn't come together for me at the end as well as it could have. There were 3 different narrators for each of the main characters, so you always know exactly which person is being portrayed at all times. All the emotions and guilt that he is going through. The other side of the coin is the guy who hit Josh with his car. You get a bit of what Josh's sister is feeling as well. The whole book is written in the first person and deals primarily with what each of the characters is feeling about the hit and run accident which killed Ethan and Grace's 10 year old son Josh.
Reservation Road explores the terrain of grief even as it astonishes with unexpected redemption: powerful and wrenching and impossible to put down.Story line was interesting from the start. In a gripping narrative woven from the voices of Ethan, Dwight, and Grace, Reservation Road tells the story of two ordinary families facing an extraordinary crisis–a book that reads like a thriller but opens up a world rich with psychological nuance and emotional wisdom. Dwight is also the father of a ten-year-old boy, who was asleep in the car the night Josh Learner was killed. The hit-and-run driver is a small-town lawyer named Dwight Arno, a man in desperate need of a second chance. The car speeds away.įrom this moment forward, Reservation Road becomes a harrowing countdown to the confrontation between two very different men.
Josh Learner, lost in a ten-year-old’s private world, is standing at the edge of the road when a car comes racing around the bend. At the close of a beautiful summer day near the quiet Connecticut town where they live, the Learner family – Ethan and Grace, their children, Josh and Emma – stop at a gas station on their way home from a concert.
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