I thought this book was beautiful, and very fun to read given that I'm taking some writing classes at the moment. I enjoyed how consciously structured it was and I enjoyed thinking about why the author made the choices he did. How he switched from third person to first person to present tense to past, all of which felt deliberate and well thought-out. I can't give it five stars because like many technical works that are virtuosic, I didn't feel emotionally connected. I understood all the feelings that were there, as I've witnessed family members die. But I didn't feel emotionally engaged or feel much of anything, really. I was fascinated, but not moved.