Dominic Murphy's Walk

Holohan, Dan

ISBN 10: 1974467600 / ISBN 13: 9781974467600

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dominic Murphy's Walk
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1974467600
• ISBN 13: 9781974467600
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Each morning, for forty years, Dominic Murphy has taken a walk through his neighborhood. The path is the same, but the people change and Dominic is a silent witness to their secrets hidden in plain sight. Then one day, a heart-wrenching loss changes his course forever.Tim Tu is a successful radiologist who is haunted by a diagnosis. In an effort to escape it all, he takes a trip to Hawaii and meets a stranger who is not who he seems.Gripping and poetic, this novel is about how the choices we make define us and ripple throughout our lives, for better or worse.

Review

Dominic Murphy, a retired Long Island plumber mourning the loss of his wife, decides to travel to Hawaii to live out the rest of his life. On the plane ride, he meets radiologist Tim Tu, who is following a similar end-of-life path. After spreading his wife’s ashes on Diamond Head, Dominic runs into Tim, who is staying at the same hotel, and they opt to go local. What follows is a tale of two men who think they have nothing left to lose living it up in paradise. The book skips through time and jumps from different points of view to build an interconnected world that attempts to explore how guilt and anger can be as deadly as any cancer. Verdict The novel initially follows Mitch Albom’s model of straightforward prose that deals with the human condition, but as the book evolves, the story lines veer more darkly toward Dennis Lehane country. Holohan (Singer Island) provides plenty of twists and turns into the light and dark of human nature.—John Rodzvilla, Emerson Coll., Boston, for Library Journal.