TITLE: HERE ONE MOMENT
AUTHOR: LIANE MORIARTY
PUBLISH DATE: SEP. 2024
Thank you to Crown Publishing for the advanced copy of this book.
Wow. This was a story. I could have finished it quickly, but decided not to. I didn’t want it to end. I’m still thinking about all of the characters.
Moriarty did a good job vividly capturing the details of each of their lives.
On the surface, the premise seems silly: A woman aboard a flight walks down the center aisle predicting the age and cause of death for each passenger on board. But once I started reading, I realized that the “psychic on a plane,” isn’t a bit. Instead, it’s a cleverly disguised device that compels us to take stock of the people around us, the ways in which our lives intersect with one another, and the roles that those intersections play in our present and future selves.
Moriarty leaves you knowing that all of us, whether we are on a plane, or standing in the line at the grocery store, or honking our horn at the car in front of us because they didn’t floor it at a newly-turned green light. All of us are trying to cope with the idea that one day, maybe tomorrow, or tonight, or in the next three minutes, we will die. And knowing this is only made worse by the fact, that we never know when it’s coming.