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Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - 3.5* - My Review

This book is a mixed bag for me. I very much enjoyed the beginning and the first few chapters. I felt drawn into the story of brothers from Ireland, Corrie and Ciaran. Corrie is a priest living in proximity to a group of prostitutes and drug addicts. Ciaran arrives later and cannot quite approve of how Corrie is living. After a promising start, it becomes a loosely connected series of short stories, some of which appealed to me while others decidedly did not. The wire walker is not the main focus of this book. He serves more as a symbolic figure. Just as I was getting interested in one storyline, it abruptly shifts to something completely different. One of the characters I cared about disappears early on. There are lots of coincidences. The further I got into the book, the less I enjoyed it. I much preferred and recommend McCann’s Apeirogon and Dancer.