![]() “But sometimes it feels like that was only the start.” Accordingly, the novel is barely halfway through when a crane arrives to remove the plane’s carcass, and its final scene takes place on the crash’s fifth anniversary. “Getting out of the building should have been the hardest thing we had to do,” one survivor says to another. ![]() ![]() Their perspectives – each distinct and believable, even if some feel more authentic than others – define alternating chapters as the sirens rise and fall. Among them are Malachi, a broken-hearted student who is struggling to raise his streetwise kid brother, Tristan Mary, the salty Filipino nurse with a secret life she keeps from her family Pamela, a teenage athlete whose father has become her jailer and vulnerable Elvis, who loves his new home, with its laminated instructions and the fridge filled by his carer. ![]()
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