McCann has a lot of very different characters - an Irish priest, a prostitute and her daughter, a Park Avenue mother and a mother from a less-desirable place, the tightrope walker, a city judge, a nurse and her children, an artist and her boyfriend… and others, who all have some space in the book for their story. That’s not really a problem with the book, other than perhaps McCann could have been more explicit about the relationships… or I was just reading badly.Įven so, I really enjoyed the book as a whole. I found myself forgetting characters or plot points or the moments of intersection, which I think took away from my reading experience. As I moved on, I could only read in snatches, which made the connected parts harder to piece together. My favorite parts of the book were the sections I read first - I had time to really sit down and invest in the book. I feel like reading these connected short story type narratives is a puzzle, and that it takes an active reader, reading carefully, to pull everything together. I’m in love with interconnected narratives, so this book seemed right up my alley, and for the most part it absolutely was. I’ve wanted to read Let the Great World Spin since I heard about it in 2009. Across New York, people from all walks of life are being impacted by this single event, and their connected yet separate stories are what make up the narrative of this book. Review: Let the Great World Spin starts with a moment: a man, standing 110 stories up on the edge of one of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center.
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