The narrative does not dress it up with tributes or memorials. It’s beyond brutal, inconceivable in its horror. Ethan dies alone, terrified, away from his parents, in incomprehensibly terrible circumstances. We are told at the beginning of the book that the 12-year-old Ethan was lined up and shot point blank in the back of the skull by a teenaged man who held up a burger restaurant.
Not just his murder, but his pointless and entirely random assassination. The discordant heart of The Accidental Tourist is the death of Macon and Sarah’s son, Ethan. It sounds like standard fare, and yet the book’s everyday trappings are entirely subverted by the shocking act of violence that quietly underpins it. Its protagonist, Macon Leary, an ordinary middle-aged American coping with the ordinary breakdown of his marriage to Sarah.
The Accidental Tourist: the setting, typical America.
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