Daniel Halloran has spent nineteen years on the night shift at Kasprzak’s Bakery on Cedar Avenue, shaping rye and kaiser rolls under a schoolhouse clock that runs exactly four minutes fast. He is quiet, kind, and invisible, and he likes it that way.
Four minutes that change everything
One October night, Daniel’s heart stops on the bakery floor. For four minutes. Stan Kasprzak, the stubborn seventy-six-year-old owner who has been like a father to him, brings him back with his bare hands, counting in Polish.
When Daniel wakes, something has changed. Every morning, as the sun comes up over East Mountain, he sees pieces of the future: a child’s bicycle under a truck, an old woman on icy church steps, a fire that has not started yet.
A quiet hero
Daniel does not tell anyone. He simply begins to help the people of his town, one small rescue at a time. Until one morning, the sun shows him a sign taped to the bakery door, in a friend’s handwriting, with a date on it. And for the first time, nothing he does will change what he sees.
Who will love this book
If you enjoy tender, funny, deeply human stories about friendship, grief, and small-town kindness, with a touch of the impossible, this book is for you.
— Viney Author