
I just read a book called,
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. And. It. Was. Great. It is a multi-faceted look at a single event (the tight rope walk between the Twin Towers) and the spin-off implications it holds for a myriad of intertwined characters. It is authentic and economic in its language and holds beautiful forays into hopeful, graceful, and truthful turns of phrase that make you stop, breath and reread.
It is a strange, galloping novel that straddles lines normally uncross-able in a single work. Lines dividing types of characters, worlds, places, times and tenses.
Highly recommend.