Title: A Real Trip!
Product review: A good read -- different from anything I have read before. Danner creates a unique setting with lively descriptions and an interesting global jumble of characters whose viewpoints alternate throughout the story. The bleak realities of surgical trauma and austere landscape are the strengths of the book, in addition to some well-drawn personalities. Its weakenesses are the occasionally sloppy prose that fails to match the appropriate speaking "voice" of an individual character, and what to me was a rather jerky, foreshortened ending that did not do justice to the elegantly bizarre plot and characters. I did find it a fascinating journey of sorts and will add it to the list of independent reading books for my high school World Lit students.
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