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Theo Decker loses his mother suddenly and unexpectedly under a set of circumstances that can be summed up as 'unlucky'. Wrong place, wrong time. It is this moment that divides his life from then on BEFORE and AFTER.

I lost my father to a brain anyeurism when I was 23. He was 53. No warning signs, no signs, no symptoms. He was fine that morning and in a coma by noon. A sword came down and put a crevice right through my heart and into my life.

Tarrt deals with the topic of loss so accurately, it damn near took my breath away at times. The numbness, the disbelief. The anger,the blame. The incredulity that the world can s

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