5.0

This is likely to be up there with my favourites this year.

A wonderful novel about loss and grief. It handles the subject of mental breakdown in several different ways and all are nunanced and thoughtfully explored. There was a cast of great characters and while I wanted to shake some of them several times throughout, all were written beautifully and with complexity that was refreshing.

I'll be searching out the rest of the novels from Ruth Ozeki.