A Commandment Predicts Outside of Time

Daniel Torday’s 2023 novel narrates chronological (im)possibilities

Van by Pexels, trees by Hans, both from Pixabay

The rental car clerk at the airport in Columbus, Ohio tells the traveler to catch a shuttle van to a nearby town called Mt. Izmir. “You’ll be able to pick a sedan up there in no time,” the clerk says. It’s the first spoken line in the novel, a Twilight Zone line; this place is not one…