Jake Epping is a high school English teacher who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
(back cover)
My first Stephen King book and I'm so glad I read it. It's a huge book but it took me on such a wonderful journey. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The basic premise is that a high school teacher gets an opportunity to go through a portal back in time to try to stop the assassination of JFK. He has to wait years to do it because the portal takes him to the the exact same year and place, but it's a few years before 1963 and there are a few things on a personal level that he needs to correct before the final mission.
