He avoids telling his family and lets it slip one night while sharing some beers with his friends. Tom gets diagnosed with cancer, and is given only a few short weeks to live. The book, however, was set in modern times, but I had just never heard it referred to as a foundry.) (I learned that foundry could be compared to modern day factories. They live in a trailer, can barely afford the government funded cheese that they survive on, and he has a dead end job down at the foundry. You then meet his family (wife and son) and quickly realize that they are not the most well off family on the block. You are introduced to the main character, Tom O’Brien very early on. (Or airplanes and vacations if you are on your way to the beach.) And not ten minutes into the book you realize that the meaning behind this Terminal was in fact death. But the title, Terminal, makes you think of medicine and quite frankly, death. The cover gets your mind thinking mystery or perhaps a crime scenario with just some hidden eyes starring in the distance. She called it a “quick read” and said that I would enjoy it if nothing else for the entertainment value of the characters. She stated that she knew the author personally, and that the book was well written and had a few surprises in it. When I picked up this book for the first time, based on a recommendation from Sheryl Hugill, I had no idea what to expect.
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