Alrighty so I’m gonna be a tiny bit of a bitchy stickler because the pattern is standing out to me, waving a giant flag. I’m on first chapter only and there have been waaaaay too many time oriented sentences. So many that I can’t figure out the past and what age she was when the big moment happened because there are too many pointed out.
The prologue starts in ninth grade. Then we jump to second semester of college.
Page 2- “The one that occurred a few years before the echoing erotica incident.”
“Nearly a decade later.”
Chapter 1 starts out as “one week prior” … but is that one week prior to walking down the aisle or one week prior to when she and her ex broke up?
Page 5-
“The restaurant it belongs to has changed 3 times over in the twenty or so years that I’ve been making this trip.”
Page 6-
“it’s been one year and four months since the last time I was forced to pull over here.”
“… a memory from one of my early teen years.”
“I haven’t spent a summer in Santa Cruz for 7 years.”
Page 7-
“Traveled every summer from the time I was 8 until 19…”
“I’d been able to visit during other times of the year, carted off to grandmas for the winter holidays.”
“Until that final year, those months were always restorative for my parents too.”
“Usually some weekend in May… and pick me up around Labor Day…. Typically until Halloween. A few years we even made it to Christmas.”
“Married Helena when I was twelve…”
Page 8-
“My mind always manages to make its way back to that collection of months.”
“… my summer friend since age 10”
“I only have to hold out a few more months I hope…”
“… hunted feeling I’ve been carrying around for the past year.”
Page 9-
“The same way I’d feel every few years when my parents would buy…”
Page 11-
“Helena’s grandson has aggravated me since I was 16.”
“It’s only been a year since Helena passed. Four months to the day after Grandma…”
Page 14-
“Give me a month” … that was a week ago.”
So honestly… what year is it?