Read January 2022
An enjoyable story. It is set in the 1980's and was written in 2013 - but it doesn't feel too dated. There were some parallels (vaguely) with The Midnight Library - about parallel lives and changing the course of your life. It also showed me that while things change, they also stay the same. The character who hated things without really even having any personal knowledge of, or experience with, them was powerfully written. I loved how that character went out to look at things - newspaper, the columns, the glass pyramids - and decide for himself. (side note - I guess I just didn't realize that when I saw those glass pyramids myself, in person in 1992, that they were so new! They were only created in the mid-80's!) I loved the ending of this book a lot.
I would give this book 4 stars.
Quotes from the book -
The important events in our lives are always the result of a sequence of tiny details.
"Wearing a hat gives you a feeling of authority over someone who isn't" he thought to himself.
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