Saving Ilena raises complications involving a child Elliott fathered and his lifelong friendship with another friend, Matt. The man turns out to be Elliott in the present.
And though he tracks down Ilena, his lost love, Elliott, in his trips into the past, must also confront the taunts of a nearly derelict man dying of lung cancer. The pills take Cooper where he wants to go, though he’s never sure if they’re just inducing dreams, however vivid. The elder hands Cooper a blown-glass bottle containing ten golden pills. Cooper replies that he wants to go back to the ’70s and save the life of a woman he loved. When his protagonist, 60-year-old doctor Elliott Cooper, on a humanitarian mission to Cambodia, operates and mends a child’s cleft palate, a village elder asks the doctor to name his greatest wish.
Musso’s tale of time travel comes up flat. Pills with strange powers allow a dying doctor a chance to revisit and perhaps alter his past.
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