I really liked this book, just like I did Mointains Beyond Mountains". This narrative jumps around in the timeline quite a bit, but to me Kidder pulled it off, it wasn't confusing at all.

We get some cameo's of subjects of other Kidder books like Partners in Health, and Jim O'Connel (Rough Sleepers is on my TBR). We also get some glimpses of Donald E. Knuth, which made me want to read a book about him.

I did feel the ending was rather abrupt and a bit too open-ended for my tastes...