Will Bird lies in a coma as the story unfolds. His niece, Annie, visits daily and sits and talks to him. She tells him her story of how she left their small town in search of her sister Suzanne. Both Will and Annie has something missing in their hearts because they have suffered losses. Each ...
Joseph Boyden is another of those young authors - such as, just to name three, Emily St. John Mandel, David Mitchell, and Adam Johnson - who seem unimaginably wise beyond their years in addition to having the increasingly rare ability to write beautifully and compellingly. Permit me to observe th...