Jake Epping, a 35 year old teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, is given the opportunity to change the past...and, in fact, the whole world. His friend, Al - who owns the local diner, tells him that his storeroom is a portal to the past - to a particular day in 1958. Illness prevents Al from completing a task he had set for himself and he wants Jake to take up the challenge. He wants him to save Kennedy and thereby save his brother, Martin Luther King, stop the race riots, and maybe even stop Viet Nam. He just has to get rid of Lee Harvey Oswald. Jake accepts the challenge and leads the reader on page-turning voyage into the past and a frightening jaunt into the resulting future. Thought-provoking suspense marks every page of this Goliath must read book.
"I don't think it is in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart."
"Who can know when life hangs in the balance, or why?"
"Life turns on a dime."
"Isn't that what writing is supposed to do? Evoke a response?"
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