What a strange book - I'm certanly glad I read it. It's skillfully done, and I can't really categorize it. The main character is a skid-row bum in 1938 who sees the ghosts of people from his past. He abandoned his family, stayed gone 22 years, came back to make peace, then left again. If he had stayed, then his time away would have been wasted. Of course it was wasted anyway, but that's the story as it was presented.
It was interesting that it was mostly in one viewpoint, third person, past tense. But occasionally the author sneaked peeks into other viewpoints. It was very well done.
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