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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
“There existed a need of one another so terrible that it produced miracles as naturally as the charged air of a sultry day produces lightning.” I read this slim book on our family camping trip, the woodsy air complementing Wilder’s lyrical writing. The novella is three stories about five Peruvians who perish in a bridge collapse, their tales functioning as an inquiry into the nature of love – its types, its consequences, and its roughshod relationship with time, fate, and history. Like in Our Town, that perennial theatrical favorite, Wilder lets many aching truths of life slip into our field of vision. It’s a book that’s quietly complex; intense, but peaceful.