The two boys attend to Sunday school together, since John’s mother, Tabitha Wheelwright, recently decided that they will switch to Owen’s church. Owen grows up in a poor working-class household, and lives in his family’s granite quarry. John comes from one of the town’s founding families, and grows up in a traditionally dignified, well-to-do household with servants and a large family fortune. John and Owen grow up as best friends in the small New England town of Gravesend, New Hampshire. The present-day timeline of the book spans from January to September, as John weaves his childhood memories of growing up in New Hampshire with an account of his life today in Canada. John Wheelwright, an American living in Toronto in 1987, tells the story of his life as he explains how he became a Christian because of his childhood friend Owen Meany.
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