Mouth to Mouth begins where all good stories begin…. the middle of an airport and a long flight delay. We meet our main character, an author, who is traveling to the land of a possible cult following of their books. When the flight is delayed, we meet Jeff, an art dealer who went to college with our leading man, and they sit together in the first class lounge where Jeff begins to word vomit a story over some drinks. The book then flips between the present day at the airport and Jeff’s past, taking us to a scenario where he saves a man’s life by giving him mouth to mouth and the events that unfold following that day.

It took me until the very last line of the book to figure out why this was being told from an outsider’s perspective instead of Jeff himself. I did enjoy the full circle of life in this novel.

The only part I did not particularly care for was Francis himself and the reasoning behind him becoming estranged from his family, but it was realistic. Overall I would say this was a good read, and I finished it in a day.