Following in the tradition of novels that plop you down right in the middle of a character's life, Lisa Lutz spends an incredible amount of the novel slowly hinting at the part of the main subject's life that you have missed out on. The Passenger, is a well written suspense story with the perfect mix of current calamities to keep you reading and just the right amount of intrigue about our heroine's past to keep you trying to guess what happened before we all met.
The main character, who we will meet as "Tanya Dubois" is ending a bad marriage and starting out on a new life. As she travels around the United States trying to stay one step ahead of her past she meets up with Blue, a woman who has troubles of her own to escape and Domenic, a policeman with questions of his own to answer. As Tanya tries to decide who her friends are and who she should be wary of, she learns how to live on the run.
This psychological thriller will keep you entangled with Tanya as she changes identities, hair color and bounces around from place to place trying to outrun her past. Finding out what defines you as a person and who you can trust and you cannot are the backdrop of this novel. This book starts out written in a quirky humorous style that slowly changes as Tanya gets more desperate. You can feel the pace changing as she gets more deeply involved in her effort to stay alive and out of prison. Then as she comes to terms with her past and her need to clear her name and get on with her life.
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