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Enlightening. Edward Ball has done his research, and it shows in the way he is able to tie the liminal experiences of his ancestors’ sparsely documented lives to the events and ultimate fate of the nation as a whole.

The first-person narrative sections are profoundly beautiful,moving, and just like life - sad and funny in almost equal measure.

I’m having difficulty with the second-person narrative passages. The stories seem disjointed. It’s difficult to visualize the person with specificity.

This experience reminds me of the joined stories in Wings of Desire - the Wenders version.