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THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC FROM RENOWNED STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING
NAMED ONE OF THE YEAR’S TOP TEN BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE

On November 22, 1963, three shots echoed through downtown Dallas. President John F. Kennedy was dead, altering the course of American history forever. But what if there were a chance to rewrite that tragic day?

In this masterful and vividly imagined tale, Stephen King—a writer who captures the intricate social, political, and pop-cultural pulse of his generation like no other—guides readers on an ambitious and unforgettable journey backward in time, exploring the tantalizing possibilities that come from attempting to change the past.

Jake Epping, a 35-year-old English teacher from the small town of Lisbon Falls, Maine, finds his ordinary life turned upside down when his friend Al, proprietor of the local diner, shares an extraordinary secret: hidden in the back of his establishment is a portal that transports visitors to one specific day in 1958. Facing his own mortality, Al pleads with Jake to continue his lifelong obsession: to stop the assassination of JFK.

Accepting this mission, Jake becomes George Amberson, stepping foot into a world defined by the optimistic days of Eisenhower and Kennedy, the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, massive American cars, dancing teenagers at sock hops, and the ever-present haze of cigarette smoke. Jake’s journey leads him to the small Texas town of Jodie, where he risks everything by falling deeply in love. Eventually, every twist and turn brings him face-to-face with the disturbed loner Lee Harvey Oswald, heading inevitably toward that fateful moment in Dallas—where the past grows breathtakingly suspenseful, and everything we think we know could unravel.

Never has the idea of changing history felt so vivid, believable—or deeply unsettling.