9/7/2023 0 Comments Later by stephen king reviews![]() “My name is Jamie Conklin, and once upon a time I drew a Thanksgiving turkey that I thought was the absolute cat’s ass. King begins with a deep breath, and then: The book starts with an apology, a justification for the repeated use of the word later. The narrator version of Jamie is in his mid-twenties, looking back on a couple of decades of growing into this strange responsibility. Jamie’s power only extends for a limited amount of time after a person dies, and, for most of the book, the ins and outs of his ability is outside his scope of understanding. The book is a first-person narrative by Jamie Conkin, a child born with an ability to see and communicate with the dead. King’s latest (aptly titled Later) is a compelling, genre-mash and in many ways, one of King’s most honest stories. Now, it’s 2021 and I’m an adult who does my own grocery shopping and I see a new paperback on a display at Costco and I throw it into my cart before any food. Manufactured, destroyable dread was the invisible thread connecting the balloon to the toy block to the yellow background. ![]() She spun my future with fabric squares-painstakingly arranged for comfort-and whatever textures might be taken from the echoes of chants and shaking chains on a fictional death row. When she was pregnant with me, my mom distracted herself with two equally consuming tasks: stitching future-me a small quilt (despite very little knowledge or skill related to sewing) and reading the serial installments of The Green Mile, published between March and August of 1996. ![]() I started absorbing Stephen King before I was born. ![]()
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