Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly turning pages to find out what happened in the past and what will happen next. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, it is a powerful new work of fiction by an internationally acclaimed writer at the height of his powers.

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us.