NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the ...
I enjoyed this book a lot. The episodes are interesting, the writing is superb and it reminds me of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. It has a little sad, nostalgic undertone coming from the long window of time spanning the episodes in the book. People come into the scope of the house and then disappear again. The permanence of the location is in sharp contrast to the transient existence of the house inhabitants. Some episodes end so abruptly they leave you yearning for more (probably and cleverly intentional).