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When things go awry, Jake figures he can go back through the portal, “reset” the past, and try again.

With his knowledge of history and Al’s extensive research on Lee Harvey Oswald, both tasks seem attainable, but the past is obdurate – it does not want to be changed. Jake agrees to take up Al’s cause but he also has his own cause to pursue: saving Harry Dunning’s family from the horrible tragedy he knows will befall them in October of 1958. However, he has developed terminal lung cancer and cannot complete his mission his dying wish is for Jake to finish what he started. Kennedy, which he believes would dramatically alter the future for the better. Al’s mission was to go back into the past and prevent the 1963 assassination of John F. In the pantry of his diner, Al has discovered a portal through which one can travel to the year 1958.

After a trip to the local diner with his newly-graduated GED student Harry Dunning, Jake is approached by the diner’s proprietor, Al Tempelton, who has a fantastical story and a monumental request. The novel centers on Jake Epping, a high school English teacher living in the year 2011. Instead of people who read horror stories, people who read ‘The Help’ or ‘People of the Book’ might like this book, if they can get the message.”

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, King said of the novel, “This might be a book where we really have a chance to get an audience who’s not my ordinary audience. This novel is profoundly different from his previous body of work in 11/22/63, the master of horror has tackled historical fiction. When I urge friends of mine to read Stephen King (as I often do), I am frequently met with the same response: “Oh, I can’t read those books, they’re too scary!” My answer is always, try 11/22/63.