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Waiting on Wednesday / Can’t Wait Wednesday
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted here, at Wishful Endings, and my version is a mix of what I’m waiting to read, whether it’s a new release that is not out yet, or an older book on my TBR shelf, which I really want to read but haven’t got around to it yet.
Here’s my ‘Can’t wait to read’, book for this week:
An Ocean of Minutes
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“Amidst the breathtaking world Thea Lim has created in AN OCEAN OF MINUTES is a profound meditation on the inhumanity of class and the limits of love. It takes immense talent to render cruelty both accurately and with honest beauty – Lim has pulled it off. This is a story about the malleability of time, but at its core lives something timeless.”
– Omar El-Akkad, author of AMERICAN WAR
– Omar El-Akkad, author of AMERICAN WAR
America is in the grip of a deadly flu. When Frank gets sick, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him. She agrees to a radical plan—time travel has been invented in the future to thwart the virus. If she signs up for a one-way-trip into the future to work as a bonded labourer, the company will pay for the life-saving treatment Frank needs. Polly promises to meet Frank again in Galveston, Texas, where she will arrive in twelve years.
But when Polly is re-routed an extra five years into the future, Frank is nowhere to be found. Alone in a changed and divided America, with no status and no money, Polly must navigate a new life and find a way to locate Frank, to discover if he is alive, and if their love has endured.
“A beautiful debut exploring how time, love, and sacrifice are never what they seem to be.” – Kirkus Reviews
“Heartbreaking and haunting.” – NetGalley UK (Top 10 Books for June 2018)
“An Ocean of Minutes is a time machine into the future of this moment. Gripping and graceful, it’s dystopian love story as told by a visionary. Thea Lim’s debut reads like the birth of a legend.” – Mat Johnson, author of LOVING DAY and PYM
Available 10th July!
About the Author
Thea Lim’s novel AN OCEAN OF MINUTES is forthcoming in Summer 2018. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston. She has worked as a farmhand, a cocktail server, a souvlaki grill cook, a theatre usher, and an elevator courier; she is now a professor of Creative Writing. She grew up in Singapore and lives in Toronto with her family.
What have you been wanting to read?
Is this on your TBR or have you already read it? Let me know in the comments below!
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Interesting and not a book I’ve heard about. I do occasionally read a time travel book and since it takes place in my area of the world – Texas – I’ll look for it. Thanks!
Sounds like a great book, Sassy. Hope you love it! <3 😀
It certainly sounds a bit different. Hope you’ll enjoy it!
This sounds captivating. Such a lovely cover too.
Sounds like a pretty good read! I like a good time travel story.
This is new to me, but it sounds really interesting. I love books featuring time travel. I hope you love it!
Oh yes, this sounds really good!!!
Oh my goodness, how awesome is this?!? And heartbreaking too! Great pick!
Thank you!!! 🙂