chloekg 's review for:

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

4.0

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This was one of my favorite books in high-school for the sorrowful yearning it paired with love. All poetry and history and beautiful ideas, it was so much emotion tied up in a family across time. As an older person, I have more difficulty connecting to that emotion, feel it's a little too saccharine for reality, a little too best-selling and movie-optioned motivated.