I have to admit it took me a while to start this book. The Life We Bury, by Allen Eskens, had been sitting on top of my pile for quite some time, always getting passed up by other books, before I finally decided to start it.
I also have trouble starting most books anyway because I can’t devote a ton of time to really get into them. Plus, this book seemed more serious than the others. And it was.
Joe, a college student, needs to interview a stranger for an assignment. Something he’s been putting off. He meets Carl in a nursing home, a man who was convicted of murdering a young woman many years ago. He’s not in prison because he’s been medically paroled. He doesn’t have that long to live.
But as Joe begins to work on his assignment and digs into Carl’s life, he can’t seem to reconcile the heroic acts of a soldier with the despicable acts of the murderer. With the help of a neighbor, Laila, they get to the bottom of Carl’s conviction, and it’s not what I thought it would be. I mean, I had hoped, but this story is even better than I could have imagined.
I really loved this book. And it’s another I could see being made into a movie. I’d watch this!