Truth be told "visions confirm faith."
However, "it takes only an error to father a sin."
It was May 15th the day of the celebration of my birth as I read this amazing new novel by a talented young writer with plenty of the 'Harvard' accolades to her title. Quite impressive!
Francesca certainly has created a name for herself with a creative writing style that is heads above the rest.
"Ghosts don't haunt for a living." "We haunt them."
Oh, but I digress what if they do...what if they have a story to tell...what if they are trapped in gates at the Harvard yard.
Guess you didn't think of that...right?
Ok, look If you could go back in time to right the wrongs would you do it?
It all begins with Eric -some might call teacher's pet- while others note he was a Harvard student studying physics.
Everything seemed to be peculiar in nature yet he continued soldering on in silence.
Could Eric's paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis be the reason he committed suicide or could genetics play a very important role here?
Cady is searching for answers, for justice, for peace on behalf of her brother and their family.
Speaking of family it's quite a powerful dynamic isn't it?
When family is sometimes playing the wild card against you it's not so black and white but plenty of gray areas in between.
What is fascinating are the voices being heard ...
Voices from Whit James Whitaker- A WWI vet who died in war as an optimistic young soldier at his prime in life. He must've been a junior back in 30's at Harvard.
What has become of Robert Oppenheimer- a Literature Science expert having won the Nobel Peace Prize as a budding scientist -favored for developing the atomic bomb. He surely must be counted during this time of the early 20's.
Have you heard about Bilhah-the slave-during President Holyoke's time (1731-1769) who tried to pass her son off as white in Harvard?
Wow-so much history-so much culture-so many unanswered questions left blank.
Could Eric and the others all have been saved? Could history repeat?
Racial segregation, animal signs, paranoia, delusions, stalking, impersonations, hallucinations, conspiracies, spying, cyber bullying and more exists in this thriller but perhaps nothing is more significant than one answer-WHY? -How is it so many lives and so many past pieces appear connected yet can be easily edited to fit a single narrative?
Lies endure -truths die with every victim they encounter.
Now it's not surprising that there's plenty more to Eric's story.
In fact bullying was just the tip of the iceberg with Lee Jennings and the fact that the Professor Mikaela Prokop was involved is also not a shocker.
It's a man's world after all and so she's selected Eric to be her faithful devoted assistant.
Nothing wrong with that, Right?
Remember the family is concerned for knowledge and hungry for truth or so they say...
Mom seems a wee bit hyperinvolved who always fought for Eric's mental illness but dad may have been feeling something different.
After all it was determined to be a suicide but looks may be deceiving because sometimes in life we take things for granted. We are so caught up in the vision of simply winning. The allure of perfection. The novice idea that we can have it all at our finger tips that we push towards that freedom and that illusive disjointed idea.
Manipulation, jealousy, betrayal are the last things we'd think of when trying to better ourselves but life is fickle and often stranger than fiction.
This book is truly a work of exquisite art!
To be framed for years to come.
Thank you to bibliotheca for this copy in exchange for this honest review.
I couldn't wait to gobble this one up the minute I came across the shelves and I'm so glad I did.
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