krdegan 's review for:

4.0

I’m not sure how to rate this book. The writing was beautiful and the characters were so well developed that I felt they were real. The story was tragic — overwhelmingly so at times. Yet the author pulled out from a hyper-focus on any particular tragedy by having the book span more than 100 years. The preludes and aftermaths have plenty of time to play out around each circumstance.

As I read the book, I thought I’d rate it a 3 because so much of the story was just so sad. But when I think of all that was accomplished in the telling of the stories, I think it deserves at least a 4.