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Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
I LOVED this book. It captures everything I believe about why we read and write at all -- it's one of those books that reminds us of our humanity. I love the sentences. I love the structure. I love the way Colum McCann took one event -- Phillipe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the twin towers -- and uses that thread to pull together the lives of several people in New York City. Their lives collide in ways they don't even necessarily see -- but WE do, and we see that this IS the world in all its beauty and eccentricity and grit and love and ugliness and motion.
I think what I love about it is that it doesn't ever really end. Because, of course, people don't. Our stories continue; the end of the page, the end of a chapter -- stories don't stop there. ("The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.")
It's as close to perfect as a novel can get, I think.
I think what I love about it is that it doesn't ever really end. Because, of course, people don't. Our stories continue; the end of the page, the end of a chapter -- stories don't stop there. ("The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.")
It's as close to perfect as a novel can get, I think.