Supernatural literary fiction · A Novel of a Boy, a Nurse, and a Gift
Jacob.
Jacob, by the numbers
- years behind vinyl
- 4
- years old
- 7
- seconds dead
- 47
- warm hands, and what they cost
- 2

After four years behind vinyl, seven-year-old Jacob dies for forty-seven seconds and comes back with warm hands, and the dead beetle, the dead plant and the screaming boy down the hall all get better after he touches them.
A pediatric nurse finally gets to take home the boy who spent four years sealed in isolation, never seeing that every life his warm hands quietly save costs him a piece of his own.
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble meets The Green Mile.
Every miracle he gives away costs him something.
- Genre
- Supernatural literary fiction
- Setting
- A pediatric isolation ward, and the house he finally gets to go home to
- Format
- Kindle ebook
- ASIN
- B0GRWYQMXQ
Also by Everett Lowry
The Ways We Keep Water
Every Tuesday for forty-two years, Del Hawes has weighed out half a bag of herring for Ruth Cutler, whose husband went over the stern of Del’s boat, and the whole harbor calls it kindness.
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