I just finished The Teahouse by the Tracks, the first novel of Eric Schoeniger and I loved it. At the core, it’s the story of five random (or are they?) people drawn together by circumstance and the strands of other relationships outside of their group that make them who and what they are, past, present and future.
It’s been a long time since I’ve had the pleasure of reading a novel with such wonderful character development. The narrator brings you inside of each character’s world through their musings, their actions, and their inactions so well that I really started to believe Janet, Charles, Ben, Ann, and Paula were real and that they were frozen in time as when I put the book down, and that they sprung to life as soon as reading resumed.
The author has an amazing way of integrating philosophies, viewpoints and observations via the characters’ self-awareness and lack of the same. The writing was so descriptive yet not overbearing and I found myself reading for hours on end, forgetting that I was a bystander and not somehow a part of the story.
If you’re looking for something simple and enjoyable with lots of great imagery and characterizations and well-constructed musings, spend some time at The Teahouse by the Tracks.
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