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Dec 11, 2017ArapahoeAndrew rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A behemoth of a novel that is full of flowing prose and stories you'd hear at a relative's house. The premise is interesting when you start (4 stories about how one person's life could have turned out, oh boy!) but by the end you are happy it is over and no longer find any joy in having to read 4 novels in 1. That being said, for a work of literary fiction, it holds its own and offers poignant insights that are mixed into the banality of the everyday life of its young narrator in the mid-twentieth century. Not as soul-wrecking as something like Yanagihara's A Little Life.