Three timelines — a boy during the siege of Constantinople in 1453, children in a present-day Idaho library, and a girl on a spaceship in the future — all connected by an ancient Greek text about a man transformed into a bird. From the author of All the Light We Cannot See, an ode to stories and the people who preserve them.
Clean — literary and historical focus.
Skip if you dislike:
Moods: Epic Inventive Multi-Era Hopeful
Tropes: Connected Stories Book Within a Book Past-Present-Future Library
Different — more ambitious and inventive, equally loved.
They connect beautifully — trust the structure.
640 pages that readers say fly by.