The Double Bind

Last night I stayed up late reading. I had gotten close to the end and I didn't want to quit until I was done. Parts of this book were starting to drag for me. It was getting mundane. I was starting to think to myself, "for God's sake, get on with it." But I am telling you that the ending snuck up on me. It blew me away. I never even saw it coming. If that piques your interest here is what Barnes and Noble's overview says:

Overview

When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won’t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies, Laurel discovers a deeply hidden secret–a story that leads her far from her old life, and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her. In a tale that travels between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century, between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island and rural New England, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian has written his most extraordinary novel yet.