"Apart from knowing I'll love you forever, I seem to have lost confidence in just about everything else. I've come to believe that only a very, very few matters in the world can ever be trusted to make sense."
Book Jacket Summary: Evan Shephard was born with good looks, bad luck, and a love for the open road. But it was on one such drive, with his father from rural Long Island into lower Manhattan, that Evan's life would be changed forever. When their car breaks down on a Greenwich Village street, Evan's father presses a random doorbell, looking for a telephone. Within hours, two families--sharing equally complex and addled histories--will come together. There will be flirtation. There will be a marriage. There will be a child, a new home...But as Evan moves further into the uncharted land of manhood, as the women and men around him come into focus, he faces roads not taken and a journey not made--in Richard Yates' haunting exploration of human restlessness, family secrets, and a future shaped by them both.
Similar to: Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse," Nicholas Sparks' "The Notebook"
Highlights:
--portrays WWII America in rural New York accurately and in great detail
--tells the story of lives forever changed (sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse) by sexual encounters, at a time when sex was something you did in private, not something you ever discussed
--will resonate with anyone who has ever thought they've fallen in love with someone, only to realize it was someone else entirely that has had their heart all along
So did it resonate with you at all?
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