The Bullet by Mary
Louise Kelly
Caroline Cashion leads
an ordinary life. She is a professor of
French Literature at Georgetown University, she regularly talks to and eats
dinner with her parents, and she is content entering middle age. One thing is bothering her however: her
wrist. Gradually over the past year using
her wrist had become more and more painful; she walks with it swathed in a
brace and cradled to her chest. Her
doctor finally sends her for an MRI.
After the scan the technician asks how Caroline got it. Caroline has no idea what she’s talking
about. The tech is incredulous, how can
Caroline not know how she got a bullet in her neck? Good question and one Caroline is determined
to answer.
This book is truly a
page turner. At the core the book is
about the tragedy in Caroline’s life that resulted in her having a bullet
pressed against her spine. It is also
about her transformation. An academic
through and through she is forced out of her comfort zone in her pursuit of
answers, doing things she wouldn’t imagine herself doing to find more and more
information. This book really makes you
wonder how far you would be willing to go to find the truth and to exact
justice.
