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By: Keith Buckley
Narrated by: Will Damron
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When John Harvey’s watch stops working on the morning of February 3rd, 1987, he has an epiphany. It occurs to him that every personal trauma he is trying to forget has had one thing in common: they all occurred at some point on the face of that very watch. The loss of his job, the death of his child, Zola’s suicide, all contained right there in that tiny circle of finite numbers. So he smashes the watch. Problem solved.

But when John steps out the door to make his daily trek to the local bar as a man newly freed from the tyrannies of time, he is met by a snowstorm that renders him completely blind, and a walk that should have taken just a few minutes begins to feel like years. Because as John Harvey wanders alone through the snow with no sun nor sign to guide him, the 28-year-old misanthrope is confronted by the vivid manifestation of every ghost he has devoted his lonely life to avoiding. In the storm he is forced to finally accept the suffering he has been hiding from. In the storm he is forced to understand that the only thing worse than never truly seeing is never truly being seen. In the storm he is forced, for once, to watch.

©2018 Keith Buckley. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism
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I wasn't really sure where it was going for most of the book. almost felt like I was listening to Murakami. just a torrent of different situations and scenes blending into each other. slightly jarring an uncomfortable a lot of the time.

this seems like a negative review, but honestly I really enjoyed the short listen. just like "scale" it doesn't leave off with a crescendo, but more on a dissonant note.

cool read. thanks Keith. can't wait for another one.

confusing at times, but intriguing

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But I haven’t connected with his work as a novelist thus far. To be clear, I didn’t dislike this story, but I find Keith better suited as a poet than as novelist. That being said, there are some beautiful, poetic lines in here that themselves made this worth listening to. RIP ETID ❤️

One of my fav lyricists and vocalists…

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This book was really fun. Lots of great creative descriptions of the scenes, I actually felt like I knew this character by the end of it. Really great

The story and performance were both great

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Confusing, jumped back and forth. Story was on the verge of boring. Ending was very lacking. I don’t recommend at all

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