Status Updates From Schattennummer

“Some of us, if consciences had toenails, would be hanging on by just that margin. Yet conscience must find ways to go on operating inside history.”

What one of them should have been saying was “We’re in the last minutes of a break that will seem so wonderful and peaceable and carefree.. . . Stay, or go. Two fates beginning to diverge—back to the U.S., marry, raise a family, assemble a life you can persuade yourself is free from fear, as meanwhile, over here, the other outcome continues to unfold, to roll in dark as the end of time.

Did not finish. Real bad. Multiple time jumps. Interesting plot slowed to a screeching halt by dialogue. Tapped out with 100 pages left.