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Laura works in a small hospital on the Maine coast, scanning and x-raying many a scared patient. In a job where finding nothing is always the best result, she is well versed in the random unfairness of life, a truism that has started to affect her personally. Her husband Dan has become a stranger since losing his job. With a son in college and a daughter set to leave home, she wonders how the upcoming empty nest will affect the disconnected state of her marriage.

Still, Laura jumps at the opportunity to attend a conference in Boston where she meets a man as grey and uninspired as her drab hotel. His name is Richard. He’s a fifty-something salesman, also from Maine, also in Boston for the weekend. When a chance meeting brings them together again, Laura begins to discover a far more complex and thoughtful man behind the flat facade. Like herself, Richard ponders his own life and wonders if the time has come to choose desire over obligation.

Five Days is a moving love story that will have readers reflecting about the choices made that so shape all our destinies. Featuring Kennedy’s trademark evocative prose and his brilliant ability to delineate life the way it is truly lived today, it is a novel that speaks directly to the many contradictions of the human heart.

Kennedy's biggest talent is the ability to seduce a reader, to the point where you can forgive transgressions, bittersweet plot lines, or being reduced to tears by tragic events, just as long as he keeps on writing. Five days is heart-swellingly passionate as a love story, hair-tuggingly frustrating for the protagonist's missed opportunities but always riveting. It stayed in my mind for weeks.

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Reading wrap-up: July 6th

By Donna Brown

Mini-reviews of: -Five Days -Quit & Run -The Art of Thinking Clearly -Do You Believe in Magic