"No!!! Why did it end...I don't want to close the book, I don't want to leave Zephyr, Alabama." (Throws tantrum) 
 This was truly magical absolutely breathtaking & one of the best books I have ever read... So much life came out of this book, the author ( 
 bless him 
 ) managed to 
 capture the true essence of childhood, the beauty of imagination and the importance of naivety 
 . The way most people describe the love for this book and the countless recommendation for this one, I can finally say I understand!!!! This is not only a book with pages but actual magic, the minute I closed the book after finishing I yearned for my childhood... From playing hide & seek to wake up early Saturday to catch up on my cartoons and to remember the time I still believed magic actually exist sigh 
 Cory ( 
 The main narrator 
 ) is a young lad living in Zephyr, Alabama in the 1960s, the small town is quite strange in a way. We see the beauty of being a child through his eyes and also the value of holding on to that inner innocence even as one grows up. One day as he accompanies his father in one of his milk deliveries an accident occurs that will take him into one interesting adventure with lots of unusual characters along the way. 
 Honorable mention on one of the amazing passages... 
 "See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God's sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they'd allowed to wither in themselves." 
 I would honestly go into the book blind because you will watch the story unravel in a unique way, I will say that I expected more of a fantasy story but towards the end of the story I came to the realisation that the book in itself is magic. The way the character approached topics of death, love, religion, racism and other topics from his perspective was refreshing because he still kept asking certain questions a normal child would ask like "Why are black people and white people so distant if they all die and go to the same heaven?" or "Is faith real?" I found myself kind of relating to him on a whole other level. The way Robert presents the story through the eyes of a 12-year-old child who is filled with imagination and an eye for the unusual added weight to the story. He painted such vivid images with his description of certain scenes and each character drowned out even though the story was told by a 12-year-old. I normally don't get child narrators in stories, they usually come off too naive or too pretentious but on this occasion, it was executed flawlessly. 
 "No one ever grows up. They may look grown-up, but it's just the clay of time. Men and women are still children deep in their hearts." Mrs Neville" 
 I loved the writing style, it was so elegant with beautiful prose and so many moving quotes that broke me (I cried so freaking hard man) and discussions on 
 life after death, faith in religion, Racism in such a crucial time period, the simplicity of childhood 
 etc. This book has completely altered my perspective on how I viewed the world ... When I was a kid I always found solace in the little things like food, cartoons, road trips, Christmas mornings and so much. As I grew up society and adulthood came and fucked it up... expectations, adulthood, responsibility and all that evil stuff came to play but I always protected my inner childhood from that invasion. If I see a bouncing castle I would bloody jump on that shit, that first lick of a cold ice cream after a hot day is magic, Saturday cartoons are still my jam because If I don't have those little things I would probably be in a mental institution. 
 So if you want a book that will make you crave your childhood while altering your perspective as an adult pick this one up . 
 P.S. The only flaw with the book is i need a beautiful edition :) 
 This Edition 
 I just got this & I can't wait Literally everyone loves this!!!