Title: Textual and narrative kaleidescope
Review: This novel has an accordion-like structure where story plots, characters and traces of their traits interweave and resonate off each other, reminding me of something I was told about how karma cycles back and forth in past and future lives - a concept that Mitchell also alludes to. The author is deft with his character portrayals and also the descriptions of the eras and circumstances they lived in. Each story/chapter ends in a coda that leaps to the next, and yet which somehow ties everything together when you reach the end. An intriguing structure that may be challenging to keep track of if you have more than one book going at any one time (like I do) but which is nonetheless interesting.
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