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A review by wxdam
The Time Has Come by Will Leitch
2.0
The Time Has Come follows the quotidian lives of a host of characters in Athens, Georgia. A godly nurse, a badass widow, a high school athlete, his touchy dad, and a few others who are all bumbling through life after the worst days of COVID upheaval.
One of the characters is a former teacher who believes there are documents related to truly heinous abuse hidden in a box in the back of the town's legendary Lindbergh's Pharmacy, and she's planning to walk in with a gun and demand to see them.
Much of the book features vignettes highlighting each character, why their flaws are worthy of our empathy, and what brought each of them to the pharmacy the night that the lights went out in Georgia.
That was a schmaltzy cliche, sure, but not as cheesy as this ending!
Really though, the ending blew up the rest of the book. The book tackled the pandemic, politics, violence, relationships, disappointment, insecurity, racism, and addiction. But the climax was odd and rushed, like we slipped into an alternate universe where really awful stuff evaporates and everyone is happy and gets along, the end. If only.
The most fascinating part of the book was Dorothy, the widow who discovered she's tough as nails and loved every second of it. I'd read an entire novel following her life before and after The Time Has Come.
Both stars are for Dorothy.
One of the characters is a former teacher who believes there are documents related to truly heinous abuse hidden in a box in the back of the town's legendary Lindbergh's Pharmacy, and she's planning to walk in with a gun and demand to see them.
Much of the book features vignettes highlighting each character, why their flaws are worthy of our empathy, and what brought each of them to the pharmacy the night that the lights went out in Georgia.
That was a schmaltzy cliche, sure, but not as cheesy as this ending!
Really though, the ending blew up the rest of the book. The book tackled the pandemic, politics, violence, relationships, disappointment, insecurity, racism, and addiction. But the climax was odd and rushed, like we slipped into an alternate universe where really awful stuff evaporates and everyone is happy and gets along, the end. If only.
The most fascinating part of the book was Dorothy, the widow who discovered she's tough as nails and loved every second of it. I'd read an entire novel following her life before and after The Time Has Come.
Both stars are for Dorothy.