Mouth to Mouth is written as a conversation at an airport between the narrator, who is a "cult author", and Jeff, an old college acquaintance who is due to board the same flight to Berlin. As they wait for the delayed plane to arrive, Jeff relives what has happened to him since leaving college by recalling the story of how he saved a man from drowning as well as the consequences this has for himself and who he saved.
Coming in at just under 200 pages, this book is nice and concise and moves along at a brisk pace with short chapters. There's some interesting stylistic choices too, for example switching from dialogue between the two men in one chapter to the narrator telling us about the near drowning experience in the next, but it also throws up some pertinent questions such as what it is to be a good person, what if you had done things differently and why would a colleague you haven't seen for 20 years suddenly confess to you, the narrator, after all this time?
Coming in at just under 200 pages, this book is nice and concise and moves along at a brisk pace with short chapters. There's some interesting stylistic choices too, for example switching from dialogue between the two men in one chapter to the narrator telling us about the near drowning experience in the next, but it also throws up some pertinent questions such as what it is to be a good person, what if you had done things differently and why would a colleague you haven't seen for 20 years suddenly confess to you, the narrator, after all this time?