The Optometrist

"You've never protested in your life," his wife said. "That's why this is a novelty."The optometrist was content with his life but when he started a Facebook account called Cash4cats and joined protest group The Friends of Currency Creek, he earned the wrath of both the Greens and a frightening new group, #catslivesmatter. It doesn't help that his new friend, the writer, is treating him like a character in his own life. Will he discern truth from fiction in time to save himself and his family? Will he stop climate change? In The Optometrist, Clark offers us a profound meditation on what makes us human, what it means to grow older and reflect on how we have lived our lives. It is a deeply moving story about love and mortality that dazzles the reader on every page.