“This our first official backlist pick for a book club and I saved that honor for something truly magical. Boy’s Life is like Stephen King’s IT if you removed Pennywise – a dense and thoughtful look at adolescence, nostalgia, the weird, the macabre, home – but didn’t ground it reality. It is widely considered to be (one of) McCammon’s masterpieces.” - Adam
Boy’s Life is a richly imagined, spellbinding portrait of the magical worldview of the young—and of innocence lost.
Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson—a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake—and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father’s pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround him. From an ancient mystic who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown—for his father’s sanity and his own life hang in the balance…
A book club round table will be taking place on 5/26 at 6:30 CST
