Wake Me Up
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.96 (937 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0985475145 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 414 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In this phantom state, compelled to witness his past once more, the family's darkest secrets, hidden over generations, will be aired.. I hover over all of them, all at once. They're living and breathing and acting on their basest impulses. But I'll try to remember--I'll try damn hard."MIDDLETON, MONTANA --OCTOBER 2004--AN ELECTION YEAR While Chris Bullet remains unresponsive in a coma, his skull shattered, he floats above dire circumstance. Injustice is a hungry beast. AN ADULTEROUS FATHER IS HAUNTED BY HIS PAST -- HIS WIFE LIVES HER LIFE IN A RIGID SHELL -- THEIR SON, UNTETHERED, DISCOVERS THE SECRET THEY SHARE WITH DEEPIKA, A VISITOR TO THEIR TOWN FROM NORTHERN INDIA. "I see all of these people. They live. Soon, heated rumors of a possible hate crime surface. This is my story and I won't remember any of it when--if--I wake up. I can see my body, motionless, wired up, adrift. A small college town's populace is tied, with complicity, to the brutal, bullying, attack of a teenage boy by four of his classmates. I lay in a coma. And I can find out why this happened
He makes his home in the Pacific Northwest with his partner of almost 30 years, and looks after four pets, Zippy, Kipling, Ajax The Gray, and Eartha Kitt'n. Justin Bog, a member of ITW, International Thriller Writers, group, graduated with an MFA in Fiction from Bowling Green State University.
Kitt O'Malley said Loved Reading This. Great intertwining of narratives told from the perspective of the protagonist who holds onto his life while in a coma.. Homophobia as Real as a Baseball Bat I have known known Justin Bog since before he was a Justin or a Bog, and it’s a moving experience to read this novel for a glimpse at the kid I knew before I had any real sense of what it meant for someone to be gay. I was generally clueless about the possibility that something like that could inform someone’s identity, and I was certainly clueless about the pain people like protagonist Chris Bullet went through.And it is a great deal of pain, literal pain, that Chris experiences. It’s no spoiler to say that he’s brutall. "An extraordinary debut novel" according to eden. Secrets. Betrayal. A heinous crime. These are elements that can penetrate the most intimate relationships, those between a husband and wife, a parent and child, and even a doctor and a patient.Wake Me Up is a novel that cannot be easily categorized. It’s part crime, part psychological suspense, told by an omniscient narrator who draws us into a complex, non-linear plot.The story takes place in a fictional town in Montana and begins with a vicious attack on a fifteen-year-old boy. Suspecting him of being gay, four school bullies crack open
A mother who has experienced a cheating husband and now a dying son, a father whose depression and choices have brought him to the verge of death, and a boy who is just trying to survive."---Sage's Blog Tours"(Wake Me Up) is Justin Bog's most extraordinary book to date, and an absolute masterpiece! Intensely written, this is the tragic story of a teenage montana boy who lies at the heart of this tale, comatose after a brutal beating fueled by hate, and the chaos that ensues after the attack. He has a unique writer's voice. The author weaves the story together as a group of individual stories as witnessed by Chris almost supernaturally in his altered and ethereal state. I find the way he structures his stories to be a breath of fresh air Buckle up and get ready for the emotional roller coaster ride through a torn family's drama. In between, everything that "happens" to Chris in his shut-off state is just as real and just as believable-but impos