Book #210 (Unique books)
Book #22 in 2013
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
"Sussex, England. A
middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral.
Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at
the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most
remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He
hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a
pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old
farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past
too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone,
let alone a small boy.
Forty years earlier, a man committed
suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse
on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable
ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly
incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise
beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what."
July 1st to 2nd - 2 days - 181 pages
Notes:
Neil Gaiman is wonderful, and I enjoyed this book. I got it just in time to go see him in Santa Rosa on his signing tour on Saturday.
My favorite part is that the picture of him as a child on a drainpipe is on the back cover of the book.
