What can you say about a book this beautiful? It is about everything life is—love, loss, longing, the paradox of human being. This novel reads like poetry and philosophy but traces generations, evokes places, makes real individual lives. It took my breath away and reminded me of reading Rilke’s poetry for the first time. I found a favorite passage on every page, but here is one: “Perhaps consciousness only occurred when there were enough humans alive to generate the spark, to seal the circuit, the critical mass for the grain of sand to become the dune, the synapse to allow a flock to change directions in an instant” (19). What an absolute pleasure. https://www.annemichaels.ca/