Five a.m.: Amanda Mallorie wakes to the knowledge that her son Robbie is gone. And a new chapter of her own life must begin. She has spent four years as her son's only support, desperately trying to understand the actions that landed him on death row and to change his fate. Now Amanda faces an even more difficult task--finding a way, and a reason, to move forward with her own life.
Opening line:
"Two hours, forty-three minutes."
AS WIDE AS THE SKY is a heavy, enlightening, hopeful book about a mother and the ramifications of a single act of her son.
The book opens with Amanda waking up and wondering about her son and his death. I was immediately pulled in and wanted to know why he was dead and why the chapter started with a sort of count down. The more I read the more I understood that Amanda's son, Robbie, had committed a heinous crime for which he got the death penalty and was given a lethal injection that morning.
But that's not what makes up the book.
The book is a lot about introspection and making the right choices and coming to terms with those choices and it's consequences. A mother can only do so much with the influence she has over her children. They grow up and make their own choices, good or bad.
But what if your child killed another? Amanda goes through so many memories and emotions as she tries to not only grapple with her sons death, but the deaths he created.
There are other characters too, affected by the tragedy, that get their own chapters. I loved how Ms. Pack wove all their stories together.
Thanks to netgalley for the early read!
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