11.22.63: Literary Suspense From The No. 1 Bestseller

Description

The story follows Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine. His life is changed when his friend Al, who runs the local diner, reveals a secret: his pantry contains a “portal” to September 9, 1958. Al, dying of cancer, enlists Jake to complete his life’s mission: to live in the past for five years and prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Jake assumes the identity of George Amberson and travels back to a world of big cars, cigarette smoke, and “the taste of root beer.” However, he soon discovers that “the past is obdurate.” It doesn’t want to be changed, and it fights back with increasing violence. As Jake tracks Lee Harvey Oswald and falls in love with a librarian named Sadie Dunhill, he must grapple with the “butterfly effect”—the terrifying possibility that saving a president might actually destroy the future.