
Even while giving Brooke permission to aspire to one day become President of the United States, he knows it’s time to reclaim his own permission to dream.


Her question haunts him: “Now that we know how short life can be, what will you do with the time you have left?” After five years, he feels an urgency-what he calls, “Atomic Time” in which every second counts-to find an answer, but is stuck. The search sends them North “beyond the wall” into a foreboding Chicago neighborhood and, soon, on a harrowing adventure that will change both of their lives-and ours.Ĭhris is still mourning the loss of his girlfriend to brain cancer. On a winter’s day, Chris Gardner set off with his nine-year-old granddaughter Brooke to find the harmonica of her dreams.
