Anne Michaels is a poet first and this shows in this novel. There are phrases, and sentences that reduce an idea to crystallized words--"we are lightening rods for time". There are descriptions that touch the senses--"the smell of rain filled the heat". The two main characters have been impacted by the holocaust, Athos escaped as a young boy and Ben was born to survivors. Both struggle to connect, to trust, to allow themselves to love. The reader aches for them as they come to terms with relationships.
The book is beautiful but the story arc had some bumps and disconnects.

Received through BookMooch

Left in the Little Free Library