There are a lot of bells and whistles in this story and its draw is Lee Oswald and the shooting of JFK. Once in the future, Jake discovers that Earth has become a wasteland after a nuclear war in 1974, and that natural disasters occur regularly. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut.

By stopping Kennedy's assassination, he initiates massive earthquakes, leading to lots of deaths and eventually to nuclear meltdowns years later.Instead of people who read horror stories, people who read The Help or People of the Book might like this book". Kennedy provided a golden opportunity to every disgruntled crazy out there by deciding to ride in an open car through the hostile city of Dallas, Texas. Jake is eventually successful in foiling the assassination but learns that doing so has set his 21st-century world on a catastrophic path.

The decision of what to do to Oswald is presented as simple and binary, in a way that bugged me throughout the book. The thing I still don't get is, in the real timeline, Oswald died as a direct result of having been arrested for Kennedy's murder. King takes it in his stride and the result is a world that feels as real in 1958 as it does in 2011.Jake is sent back to 1963 with a plan made up by a guy named Al who owns a local diner, and has the "rabbit hole" which is how they travel back in time.

That´s especially interesting because King is pointing the finger at the extreme injustice of the economic system in some of his newer works while focusing on the traditions of hate in this one.Some of its critics don't like the crossover of many genres, claiming it "wanders from genre to genre". He knows that the true monsters are those that live inside every one of us (and, ahem, occasionally in Derry, Maine).

He goes on to describe a rest stop in which the regular bathroom is labeled for use by whites only and the signs to the 'colored' restroom lead to something awful. He spent four years in the past after entering the portal the previous night, traveling to Dallas, Texas, to track Lee Harvey Oswald, plotting to kill the would-be assassin during his attempted murder of General Edwin Walker.She had married a man named Trevor Anderson, with whom she has five children, eleven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.