50 books to read before you die discussion

The Human Comedy by William Saroyan was published in 1943 and is #70 on our 100 books list. It's also one of our group reads for May 2020.

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica this is a "sentimental novel of life in a small California town. The narrator of the story, 14-year-old Homer Macauley, lives with his widowed mother, his sister Bess, and his little brother Ulysses; his older brother has left home to fight in World War II. While family relationships and domestic situations are in the foreground, the events of the outside world, including the cataclysmic war, are never entirely out of the picture."

What did you think of this book?