Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Push yourself to make it through the first chapter, and you'll be rewarded with a wonderful story. Like Olive Kitteridge, this is a book made of short stories with various characters who all are linked together. Sometimes it's hard to make the connection that they have, but eventually you realize what it is. The characters are beautifully described, and the writing is excellent. Here's one of my favorite paragraphs. One of the female characters is describing her ex-husband. " Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place." Wonderful book. -June