{"id":43411,"date":"2022-02-17T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=43411"},"modified":"2022-02-10T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T19:37:17","slug":"under-the-whispering-door-by-tj-klune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/under-the-whispering-door-by-tj-klune\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cEveryone loses their way at some point, and it\u2019s not just because of their mistakes or the decisions they make. It\u2019s because they\u2019re horribly, wonderfully human. And the one thing I\u2019ve learned about being human is that we can\u2019t do this alone. When we\u2019re lost, we need help to try to find our way again.\u201d – <\/em>T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door<\/p>\n

Under the Whispering Door<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>was an incredibly powerful read that had me feeling a wide variety of emotions. (If you haven’t read The House in the Cerulean Sea<\/em> by Klune, you should do that too – check out Anna’s blog<\/a> to learn more about it). Klune sprinkled so many profound nuggets of wisdoms throughout this book that I still find myself thinking about it days after finishing.<\/p>\n

Wallace Price is troubled. He spends his entire life at the office trying to understand why people behave the way they do. As a lawyer, Wallace craves order. His life changes when he wakes up at his own funeral. When a woman approaches him and says that she is a reaper come to collect him, he is confused and outraged. First of all, he can’t be dead. Secondly, there is only a handful of people at his funeral. Utterly ridiculous.<\/p>\n

The reaper takes him to Charon’s Crossing, a slightly irregular tea shop. It sits on the outskirts of a small village off the beaten path that runs through the mountainous woods. Hugo, the owner, is there to help Wallace in any way he can. He works as a ferryman who helps souls cross over.<\/p>\n

The more time Wallace spends time at the tea shop talking with Hugo and the others, the more Wallace thinks he might actually be dead. He isn’t ready to abandon his life just yet though. He didn’t actually live his life to the fullest. Wallace spent his time alive at work, but he spends his time dead really living: joking with the others at the tea shop, manifesting new clothing, and noticing the stars with Hugo. Just as Wallace settles into a comfortable rhythm however, the all-powerful Manager descends upon Charon’s Crossing with a deadline that will change them all forever.<\/p>\n

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