January Man and January Man
One of the things that stood out to me immediately was that the first and the last chapter were both called January Man. While this book was basically talking about Jason developing over the span of an entire year, those chapters were probably the most meaningful ones. In the first Chapter Jason talked about a lot of different events happening and while a lot of them unfolded more with the months passing by, he didn’t discover his Dad’s deepest secret until 12 months later. Jason's character had an amazing development over the span of 365 days and while that is a normal age to go through changes, his personality developed impressively. In the first chapter Jason had this interaction at night with this elderly woman because he sprained his ankle on the lake, while he was skating. Somehow over the next 11 Chapters we didn’t get more information about the strange happenings during that night, but in the last Chapter Jason found the courage to go back into the forest and face th...