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

5.0

If a book could earn ten stars, this one would be a dozen. Colum McCann weaves an intricate portrait of New York in 1974, but it could just as easily be Anywhere, USA. The narrators are diverse and yet we feel as if we know them. Know their stories. Inhabit their stories. From a Bronx prostitute to a wealthy judge to a run down Catholic priest, McCann shows us that the beauty in this world comes through the everyday grime. Everyone has their stories, and all to often those stories intertwine. And rarer still are those times when all the stories around merge into one extraordinary scene: a man walking a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers. Those same towers instantly disintegrating. Tsunamis in Japan and Indonesia. Katrina and Andrew and Rita. Names and places and dates and times that play a role in every story. And it is that cohesion of stories that draws us in - the intersection where lives collide and stories become one big story. Our Story.