The Frequency of Living Things is the second book by Nick Fuller Googins. Although he has written short stories and essays. Most importantly he is an elementary school teacher. The novel is complex with various issues, conflicts and characters.
How many times can you give up something and lose everything for your family? How many times does a trait repeat itself in different generations? How much is everything? Job? Housing? Safety? Guilt? These are just some of the things that Nick Fuller Googins explores in his new book The Frequency of Living Things. The answers are not definitive, black and white. Some people give everything until there is nothing left for themselves, but where is the line?
This book is a character study of sisters. The ties that bind them and hold them. The guilt that some feel for the others. The amount of giving for each of them to the other. I found myself yelling don’t do it. This is not a healthy choice, yet I kept on reading. It was like a slow motion accident happening in front of my eyes…
And then the climax and the resolution came… What an ending.
