Goodbye To The Road Not Taken by A.M. Homes, 2022
The magic trick:
Tracking the reader’s reading experience perfectly sentence by sentence
A.M. Homes is such an entertaining writer. She has that innate gift of knowing just what to say next. Each sentence follows the other at just the right pace with just enough mystery to keep the reader interested.
Sounds easy, but it certainly is not.
And that’s quite a trick on Homes’s part.
The selection:
“What was the word?”
He hesitates. “The B word.”
“Ummm. Well, at least it wasn’t the C word.”
“The guy just looks at me. Maybe it was the word. Maybe I actually said the word, I have no idea … ‘Anything else?’ the guy says to her as he’s wrapping the fish. ‘Is that macaroni salad house made?’ she asks. And then I lost it.
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