Lanny, by Max Porter is not a book for everyone. A few years back, I told you about Grief is the Thing with Feathers which he also wrote. This book, on a different topic, also requires you to suspend what you think you know about time in a linear sense, and about boundaries between life and death.
This is the story of the relationship between a boy named Lanny and his parents, mad Pete the artist, and Papa Toothwort who has been dead for many years. It's a small piece of their lives that intersect. Just a glimpse of events in a village where "...one thing leads to another again and again, with no such thing as an ending". You will likely race through it in a few short sittings, because you won't be able not to.
I will forever want to ready ever single thing that Max Porter writes. That is how much I have loved both of his books. Highly recommended for that population of readers who (as stated above) are open to thinking about things they have not considered possible. For sure, you will HAVE to read it, if you were touched by Grief is the Thing with Feathers.
Sounds good, thank you, Carol.
Posted by: jacki longj | 01/06/2020 at 12:27 PM