This novel unravels all of its characters secrets and leaves no stone unturned. The Life We Bury tells the story we all share - a story about those skeletons hidden in our closets, those secrets we want to take to our grave, those moments in time we bury so deep we hope they never breathe life into our consciousness again. Is there an actual right or wrong way to deal with life? It's an incredibly powerful question. The bond between brothers is so strong that you start to feel like Joe too - putting yourself in his shoes - thinking about what you'd do in his situation. Joe struggles so much between doing what's right for Jeremy or doing what's right for himself - it's such a real part of life that you can't help but sympathize with him in every way. Jeremy suffers from autism and you can immediately tell that Joe feels a deep and fierce protectiveness for his brother.
I would be remiss if I left out another aspect of this fabulous novel - and that is Joe's relationship with his brother, Jeremy. I loved the way the plot thickened, the mystery deepened, and the twists hidden in ways that you could never see coming. You wouldn't think you could write an entire book on that, right? But what happens turns out to be a life-and-death mystery mixed with a dying man's deepest memories and a 30-year-old criminal case. The basic premise: a college student, Joe, needs to write a biography about anyone of his choosing and he just so happens to choose a convicted murderer living in a nursing home and dying of cancer. The fascinating aspect of this book is its simplicity.
Trust me, this is one you won't want to put down. It's been a while since a book has had me so engrossed and completely captured within its pages. Not because it was short, but because it was absolutely incredible. I read this book in just under four hours - no kidding. Will Joe discover the truth before it’s too late to escape the fallout? But as he and Lila dig deeper into the circumstances of the crime, the stakes grow higher. Thread by thread, Joe unravels the tapestry of Carl’s conviction. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.
There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same.Ĭarl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class.
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