’11/22/63′ begins with Jake Epping, a Lisbon Falls high school teacher assessing his GED adult student’s work, which was to write about the day that changed their lives.

Spoiler warning: important parts of the novel are revealed below. Soon, Jake discovers that changing time also changes reality in an unrepairable way, and after seeing the damage he caused, Jake tries to enter the portal one last time and rewrite all the wrongs he did while he was in the ’60s. Jake also fulfills Al’s wishes of saving a girl from being shot by a hunter. After saving her life from her husband, Jake and Sadie fall in love, and soon he tells her he is from the future. He travels to Jodie, Texas, where he meets Sadie, a librarian in an abusive relationship. Jake begins plotting a way to get rid of Oswald, the president’s killer. Jake decides to move according to the plan and try to save the president, he also tries to save Harry’s family from being killed, but he soon discovers that changing time has consequences of equal value as changing past events. Al shows Jake a portal he can travel through, and on confirming it was not a hoax, Al tells Jake of his plan to stop the assassination of John F. On arriving at Al’s diner the following day, Jake is perplexed to see an aged Al who explains that he had traveled into the past back to September 9, 1958. Two years later, Jake meets Al, a diner owner who asks to meet him the next day.

Jake asks his students to write an essay on the day that changed their lives and moved when he reads the story of Harry Dunning, the limping school janitor whose drunk father murdered his mother and siblings and injured him, leaving him with a limp. The story of ’11/22/63′ begins with Jake Epping, a divorced Lisbon Falls high school English teacher teaching a GED class to adult students. With the jaw-dropping realistic depiction of events and an in-depth definition of characters, ’11/22/63′ holds its place as a sci-fi masterpiece. ’11/22/63′ is a science fiction time traveling book that shows an alternate version of history where the change of a past event ruins the fabric of time.

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