A review by bkowalczik
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

4.0

What is life like for the intellectually gifted, geniuses, surrounded by the rest of us mere mortals? Is there meaning in life for the atheist genius? I liked this book because it made me think- at least a little bit - and took me places I wouldn't even think of going intellectually myself (there is a lot of philosophy) and I had to read it with a dictionary (I have a small vocabulary). However, there is still the story between these alienated souls that draws us into the novel and kept me reading until the very, surprising, end. ""I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world."