Jim has built a small and safe life, threatened only by his own mental illness, until he meets Eileen, whose charisma and confident imperfection both attract and terrify him. More philosophically, it’s a warning about our search for perfection and control in an imperfect and uncontrollable world.īyron’s story alternates with the present-day narrative of Jim, a middle-aged man severely constrained by obsessive-compulsive disorder. It’s ripe for discussion about social class, gender roles and mental illness. Joyce’s dark, quiet follow-up to her successful debut, “ The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,” could easily become a book club favorite. And once time has proved itself as mutable and unreliable as anything else man-made, Byron finds the rest of his world going askew. “Time was what held the world together,” thinks 11-year old Byron Hemmings in Rachel Joyce’s “ Perfect.” “It kept life as it should be.”īut it is 1972, and time is about to change with the first addition of two “leap seconds” designed to align time to Earth’s rotation.
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