Every day, Mercer Moore was reminded that it was all ending.
It\'s THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU narrated with the formal experimentation of Jenny Offill and Scott McClanahan..
HOW TO Keep Time is a millennial novel reminiscent of Andrew Martin\'s EARLY WORK and Miranda Popkey\'s TOPICS OF CONVERSATION.
When he stumbles upon an unexpected discovery hiding there, he\'s forced to reckon with the reality of his marriage or continue crawling further into his comforting delusion.
As each day passes without word from Alejandra, Mercer becomes more immersed in the sprawling, haunted wilderness of the Pine Barrens and its unsettling mythology.
Evan, recently sober and born-again, offers condescending platitudes while Lake, a widowed former hippie, is too stoned to present any real solutions.
But the retreat to the family cabin in the New Jersey Pine Barrens only leads to more problems.
Fearing he\'s losing his grip, his brother Evan and father Lake suggest a weekend trip in the hopes that Time away will lead to some clarity.
Rather than deal with the reality of her absence, Mercer reports Alejandra as missing to a skeptical detective and prays he\'s not subsequently considered a suspect.
It just doesn\'t feel like the end.
Still.
She hadn\'t used the word divorce, but she had used I and need and out, all in a row.
Sure, his wife Alejandra had been blunt.
Maybe that\'s why it doesn\'t seem like the end for Mercer.
It was The End of Television, of Civility, of The Planet.
Every day, Mercer Moore was reminded that it was all ending
