The Passage (The Passage, #1)

by Justin Cronin

The things of your life arrived in their own time, like a train you had to catch.

I simply loved writing in Auntie’s voice. She possesses two kinds of wisdom: the wisdom of age, of simply having lived so long and seen so much; and the wisdom of having known the world of “the time before.” Everybody in the Colony has a job, and hers is to remember—to be the keeper of the past. And for her own life, she has a great accepting grace. There’s sorrow there, for the events of the past, but also a faith that life will take you where you’re supposed to go.