The Book of Reading

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Can words poems books-if used correctly-save the American republic? If you ask the gifted beautiful Eveline Stahl the answer is yes absolutely. For Eveline literature and words not only connect all things to one another but they create invisible bands that surround Earth and protect it from harm.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Though born far apart-she in 1909 he in 1941-Eveline Stahl and Malcolm Reiner are destined to meet fall in love and then to try to save the nation. When? Autumn 1933. Where? Iowa City Iowa where both are graduate students. Their plan? To go on the long walk into September 1947 and West Tree Minnesota where they try 1) to forestall the formation of the CIA and the start of the Cold War; 2) thereby to prevent the 1963 assassination of JFK; and thus 3) avoid the long decline of the nation into tyranny-a later and grievous outcome nevertheless that is watched in 2028 from a window of his New York apartment by an aged defeated lonely Malcolm Reiner after finishing a book-this book-about his beloved and lost Eveline.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From prize-winning novelist Eric Larsen </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Book of Reading</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a timely literary patriotic-and deeply moving-novel.</span></p>