Rating: *****

Summary: This is a tale about picking up the pieces of a way of life shattered by loss. Conrad Jarret is trying to get back on track. After his brother died, he tried to commit suicide. Now, he's back home, and trying to deal with life, and trying to go on. Calvin Jarret has lost one son, and almost lost the other one. Right now, he's trying to figure out who he is and what he needs to do to help his wife Beth, his son Conrad, and himself. This is told from two viewpoints, Conrad's (Con) and Calvin's (Cal) in alternating chapters.

    The two viewpoints in this book are more heplful in getting some sight into the lives of this family, but it also leaves out Beth, the wife and mother. This becomes quite important as you go through. The author really manipulates you into believing one thing to be true, just because one of the narrator's imply or think so, and suddenly drops a bombshell that completely alters your viewpoint. This is a book that has to be read slowly once, even if it means reading it through once fast, and then going back. It really is a book that makes you think, and is also relevent to many of us who have lost a loved one. It also shows just how abnorman normal is (if that doesn't make sense, ask me about it, and I'll clarify)

Written by: Lava