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\nIn November 22\, 1963\, three shots rang out in Dallas\, President Kennedy died\, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man w ho travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel th at is a tribute to a simpler era\, he sweeps readers back in time to anoth er moment\, a real-life moment\, when everything went wrong: the JFK assas sination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to ch ange the course of history. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high sch ool English teacher in Lisbon Falls\, Maine\, who makes extra money teachi ng adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the student s\, a gruesome\, harrowing first-person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother\, his sist er\, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg\, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later\, Jake's friend Al\, who run s the local diner\, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane\, and insanely possible\, mission to try to p revent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake's new life as George Ambe rson and his new world of Elvis and JFK\, of big American cars and sock ho ps\, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high scho ol librarian named Sadie Dunhill\, who becomes the love of Jake's life\, a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
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