Life: An Exploded Diagram (Hardcover)

from tim_halpin

I think I may have found a new favourite author. Is this a coming of age novel? A romance? A history lesson? Yes, it is all of that, and they're all tied up together into this book with an amazing historical scope and an ambitious exploration of how Big History, the Cold War, effects the lives of...

from readerspeak

What an ambitious novel this was. At first I had a difficult time getting into this book, but I'd read such positive reviews, I stuck with it. I'm glad I did. The beginning is hard with the dialect and the switching perspectives. But once working-class Clem and rich girl Frankie met, I was hooked...

from akmargie

A very powerful story, actually two stories, a love story and a war story told parallel, overlapping, intertwining and dissecting all at once. And the writing is just incredible. "But the window - if that's what it is - is utterly and intensely black. Blacker than any night sky in the darkest p...

from alyson

Read this since it made SLJ's Battle of the Books and liked it. Hope it gets more visibility.

from JenGennari

Really enjoyed this. But is it YA? Perhaps inaccurately shelved at my local library.