LUNAR RENDEZVOUS

Awards & Accolades Likes 27 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller by Blake Crouch ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 26, 2016 Suspenseful, frightening, and sometimes poignant—provided the reader has a generously willing suspension of disbelief. Awards & Accolades Likes 27 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller A man walks out of a bar and his life becomes a kaleidoscope of altered states in this science-fiction thriller. Crouch opens on a family in a warm, resonant domestic moment with three well-developed characters. At home in Chicago’s Logan Square, Jason Dessen dices an onion while his wife, Daniela, sips wine and chats on the phone. Their son, Charlie, an appealing 15-year-old, sketches on a pad. Still, an undertone of regret hovers over the couple, a preoccupation with roads not taken, a theme the book will literally explore, in multifarious ways. To start, both Jason and Daniela abandoned careers that might have soared, Jason as a physicist, Daniela as an artist. When Charlie was born, he suffered a major illness. Jason was forced to abandon promising research to teach undergraduates at a small college. Daniela turned from having gallery shows to teaching private art ...