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Not really any likeable characters in this novel. Pace is good and characters well-developed. Very clear picture portrayed of the central family’s lifestyle and social circle. Still not sure how the mysteries will resolve or how they are linked.

Forgiveness takes you back to the person you were and lets you reset them. Hope exists in a future where you are new. Forgiveness and hope are miracles. They let you change your life.

The rhythms of loss and asylum, exodus and loneliness, roll like floods across human history.

“They fed us all poison from a bottle marked ‘prestige’ and we developed a high tolerance for bitterness.”

“Ideas are frictional, factional entities which wilt when pinned to flowcharts. Ideas have to cause problems before they cause solutions.”