His dying mother's wish was to locate her long separated mother and thus, Leo Nolan embarks on a mysterious journey back to Ashland based on the letters he starts to receive from his long lost uncle recently while the letters were posted back then in 1934.
He started on his journey by driving back to the last place his uncle wrote about in his letters, and stayed in the same hotel where he met the same people his uncle talked about.
In his quest to find out the truth about his uncle, he was thrown into an imaginary world based on the letters, his uncle's description, and the story as told by the owners of the inn whom his uncle was close to.
As he starts to uncover the story behind his uncle's disappearance, he plunged into a little romance with the local waitress at the Woolworth's he frequent for meals.
It started off with a sad note, and the writer captured my interest by the intrigue he has built.
However, as the story moves deeper when Leo, the protagonist is in Ashland, that was where the climax starts to die and I felt that the story had gone into a weird route; where you seem to feel out of the flow.
It did explains things though; but I guess it started off with too much of a high note which could lead to a low-key ending which was supposed to be simple and explanatory; but it was not meeting my expectation :(
Overall, the little book made it easy to carry in my bag whenever I need a book to read.
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