Journal entry for 1/27/10:
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Reading this on my kindle. Started 1/14/10.
Finished 1/26/2010.

Recommend? – Although Let the Great World Spin is not one of my recent faves, I would definitely recommend it. If you like linked or related short stories, you would love this. Each chapter is narrated by a different character, sometimes in first person and sometimes in the third. The associated stories take place over a short amount of time, but the events they recall in the present and past are immense and intricate. The stories are brimming with emotion and are at times told so exceptionally that I found myself transformed.

Memorable quotes:
“She had told Jaslyn once that everyone knows where they are from when they know where it is they want to be buried.”

Definition:
obduracy – stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action

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