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4.0
This isn't a fast-moving thriller, soon-to-be-movie, where one eccentric scientist or lucky stargazer tries to avert a major disaster. This is a story about Margaret who, amongst many others, is visited by an angel. In her vision, she is told to build an ark for 30 people - no more, no less - and given the instructions on how to build it. This is also the story about Jack, a homeless man suffering from traumatic brain injury, who knows that his job is to warn people about the coming flood. Both know that this flood isn't caused by God, because He promised not to, but that instead He is sending them a warning to help them save people. And this is the story of their attempt to do so.
It focuses on the small stories of the individual people - the store clerks, the doctors, the local religious leaders - rather than looking at the government; it includes the struggles with local by-laws (you're apparently not allowed to build a boat on public property) and the struggles with people who can't, or won't, allow themselves or anyone else to believe.
I don't know what I expected for the ending, but it felt right. I wished it had continued, but that's always the way with a book you enjoy because you don't want the story to end.
It focuses on the small stories of the individual people - the store clerks, the doctors, the local religious leaders - rather than looking at the government; it includes the struggles with local by-laws (you're apparently not allowed to build a boat on public property) and the struggles with people who can't, or won't, allow themselves or anyone else to believe.
I don't know what I expected for the ending, but it felt right. I wished it had continued, but that's always the way with a book you enjoy because you don't want the story to end.
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