What are you reading this week of June 19, 2016?

[SheilaT]

16. Just finished "Any Day Now" by Terry Bisson.

It's a very odd sort of alternate history. Starts out in the early 1950's, focussing on a kid who lives in southern Indiana. The first hint this isn't an ordinary mainstream novel is a sentence noting that Hillary and a sherpa die coming down from Mt. Everest. Later on, a reference to James Dean surviving a car crash. Things go farther and farther afield, until the entire political landscape changes drastically in 1968. Most of that happens off screen. The bulk of the story simply follows our hero around. He winds up living more or less off the grid with others like him.

I am generally a large fan of alternate history, but usually such novels start with the change having already happened at some time in the past. This one is different, and what makes it interesting, is that at first there are small changes that eventually snowball into a very different country.

I don't want to say more for fear of plot spoiling. But I will say that it didn't entirely work for me.