"When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart."
Paul Harding
Tinkers
This story had an amazing opening line: "George Washington Crosby began to hallucinate eight days before he died." Tinkers is the story of an old man on his death bed, remembering his childhood and his father who disappeared when he was a child. As time collapses in his mind, the story jumps back and forth as he processes the trials and triumphs that was his life.
This book was wonderful. The language was beautiful storytelling breath taking. It was filled with beautiful sentences, for example: "I was just thinking that I am not many years old, but that I am many years wide," and "the universe's time cannot be marked thusly, such a crooked and flimsy device could only keep the fantastic hours of unruly ghosts."
The characters as spectacularly complex, working through various emotions and they are described in a way that is so very real. I can definitely see why this book won the Pulitzer in 2010 and I highly recommend this book. It is a wonderful book club book (its our Rebel Alliance pic for this month), and a short one, so you can easily fit time to read it into a busy schedule. Short, sweet, you won't regret reading it.
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