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Please do keep up the great work. Pages Home Archives Reviews. Berney has taken two tragic events and shown readers how loss and survival can become overwhelming definitions to a life, a life lived in the shadow of enormous loss and guilt of survival. Answers to the "why" of tragedy often plague those left behind and prevent connection with the life left to live. So it is for the two main characters of this novel, Wyatt and Julianna, survivors of two separate tragedies, but seekers of answers to why.
The summer of in Oklahoma City was the scene of one of those tragic events that become a landmark of time, when people remember where they were in their life at the time of a certain crime or horrendous act.
On a hot August night, a movie theater is robbed and six employees, five of them teenagers, are left behind dead from an execution style shooting. Miraculously, there is also one survivor in the carnage of death and despair, one teenage boy who escapes the fate of his friends and co-workers. The lone survivor as well as the senseless deaths baffle those faced with solving this crime.
It's nothing to how survival baffles the lone survivor, who ends up moving away from Oklahoma City, changing his name, and putting a twenty-five year distance between the scene of his living nightmare and his newly adopted life. That the three murders were caught up with only a couple of months after the killings and were themselves killed in a shoot-out with law enforcement does nothing to answer Wyatt's big "why.
