Let the Great World Spin

Reading this book is a rich and rewarding experience. The sentences are wonderful and the themes are powerful and important. But. The structure of the book bothers me. Each of the sections works beautifully on its own, but the reader is left to wonder–too much, I think–what the connections are. It's only in the last pages that it comes together, and while that's okay, and those pages saved the novel, I think the structure leaves this one short of greatness.