This book is extremely hard to review since it doesn't truly fit in any one category or genre, but anyone who loves good writing should enjoy this immensely.
This very original book, which took the author 13 years to write, begins by introducing you to a woman named Eleanor who has a dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer in the 1960's. Her dreams are dashed when she becomes pregnant, but are soon brought back to life after her baby is born. Another series of events then ruin her dream for good and she becomes depressed...
The reader is then transported to the 1980's where the woman's daughter is growing her own young family. She has twin girls and a husband who works hard in a dying town. A horrific tragedy occurs which sets up an amazing voyage through time and dimensions too descriptive and deep to mention here.
This story is about life and death, tragedy, hope, forgiveness, sacrifice and healing. Even though things often appear dark and gray and dire, the feeling persists that there is a greater power at work despite there being no religious overtones whatsoever. Family choices and events obviously have effects on future generations, and this plot takes us on that journey through generations after choices were made and certain fates were sealed. The author then gives us a glimmer of another power at work that could make changing events of the past not out of the realm of possibility.
While the characters deal with all these emotional, family-life-type events, some strange things start to happen to the characters as the author experiments with alternative theories of dreams, reincarnation and afterlife, and portals and time manipulation. Somehow the author turned awful tragedy into profound experience for characters and readers alike by taking us all on a wonderful adventure through various times and places.
While reading this you don't realize yourself becoming emotionally connected with the characters and their discoveries. You can't help but be intrigued by the wonderful concepts and the absolutely beautifully descriptive and resonant lyricism.
It is a very beautiful and deeply powerful story, highly imaginative and indescribable. It is haunting and thought-provoking, hypnotic and fantastic.
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