What he gets, instead, is a chance to interview a convicted murderer who got transferred to the nursing home because he is dying of cancer.

He is kind of behind his assignment, so, being in a hurry, he goes to a neighboring nursing home, hoping to catch some war veteran who could share with him something grand. So the book focuses on Joe Talbert, a college student, who gets an assignment during his English class to interview someone and write a report about that interview in the form of a biography of the interviewed person. But that’s OK I figured this is the way the author wanted to introduce him to his readers, gradually. In fact, he was a secondary character that appeared towards 65-70% of the story. Now, granted, the main character I came to love from the author’s last book, Max Rupert, was hardly in the book.In fact, he was a secondary character that appeared towards 65-70% of the story. So I went back to the beginning, The Life We Bury.

Truth be told, I started Allen Eskens’ books with his latest novel, The Deep Dark Descending, and only when I finished reading it I realized that it’s, in fact, part of a series. Now, reading the Allen Eskens books in order means catching up to no less than four books with the latest published in 2017.

When the book was published back in 2014, I had no idea the author even existed. The Life We Bury is the debut novel of the author Allen Eskens.

Novel the life we bury