My Amazon and Goodreads review of Let the Great World Spin (Rating 5): Vibrates Like a Tightrope. Like a tight rope stretched across 30 years, Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin vibrates with each air current, then settles down only to be disturbed again. Each life is rendered as individually as a sky walker silhouetted against the heavens, yet each is connected to another like the ends of the rope. In a series of twosomes — a man and his brother, a mother and her daughter, young lovers, old friends — McCann finds riches in poverty, salvages gains from unspeakable losses, and uncovers grace in disaster. A book that will both bury readers in grief and buoy them with hope.
