Really really beautiful--which seems like a fake weird thing to say, but for a book as long as it is, it really sucked me in and I finished it so quickly because I had a really hard time putting it down. There's just so much about htis book that is beautiful--her tender attention to detail in the surroundings of the characters, the characters themselves and their relationships to one another... really is just breathtaking in so many ways, and hit me at a right time.