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A review by suzanjackson
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
4.0
I read this book for my neighborhood book group. It's a unique novel that revolves loosely around an event in NYC - the day in 1974 when a tightrope walker walked between the World Trade Center buildings.
The novel is told in separate stories about various people. At first, the stories all seem completely separate, but as the novel progresses, the different people intersect each other's lives, often in unexpected ways.
It's a complex novel, and not everyone in my group liked it at first, but most people enjoyed it more the longer they read. It's satisfying as the different story lines come together, although some of them are quite sad. And all of us enjoyed the opportunity to see life from so many different perspectives, some of them vastly different from our own experiences (a devoted holy man, mothers who lost their sons in the Vietnam War, a prostitute, etc.)
This was a great book for a book group - it provided lots of topics for discussion.
The novel is told in separate stories about various people. At first, the stories all seem completely separate, but as the novel progresses, the different people intersect each other's lives, often in unexpected ways.
It's a complex novel, and not everyone in my group liked it at first, but most people enjoyed it more the longer they read. It's satisfying as the different story lines come together, although some of them are quite sad. And all of us enjoyed the opportunity to see life from so many different perspectives, some of them vastly different from our own experiences (a devoted holy man, mothers who lost their sons in the Vietnam War, a prostitute, etc.)
This was a great book for a book group - it provided lots of topics for discussion.