What happens when you take a small town in Maine and surround it by an invisible barrier that prevents anything from passing except tiny amounts of air and water? That’s where King starts. The fictional town of Chester Mills, Maine becomes a pressure cooker in which ordinary small town people are reduced to their essential natures. Some rise to the challenge to become heroes, and others, who would have been nothing more than petty scoundrels are forged into monsters. King shows how the sins of the past can define an individual for the better or the worst.

I really enjoyed this novel. I think it ranks up there with The Stand and the Gunslinger Series as one of King’s best works.