Reread June 2025: I love this novel so deeply. It refuses the clock. It is an earnest love song built with sentences. I am overwhelmed with tenderness.

Just shatteringly incredible. Reading this book was like reading a novel length poem, in the sense that the language was simply incandescent--sentence after breathtaking sentence. But it was also, absolutely, a novel, perfectly structured, full of deeply real characters and intimately evocative of time and place. A masterpiece. I can't wait to read it again.