A review by krdegan
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

4.0

The characters have stayed with me for a couple weeks, so I upped this from a 3 to a 4. I enjoyed the book but didn't totally love it. I liked the intersections between all the lives and didn't find them too contrived. I felt like this would be a great book for an angst-ridden adolescent to read to see that all people have their struggles and weaknesses, no matter how together they seem, and also that all people have a story to tell, no matter how different their lives may seem. The book was alternately touching and depressing. And while it was anchored in time by the tightrope walker, that story was somehow just peripheral.