Just wow! This book was incredible... Elizabeth Joy Arnold's writing is supurb and drags a reader (sometimes kicking and screaming) into the story. She makes you feel things and revisit ides you had as a child and they shaped your adult life. Arnold's writing is a little slow and did make me want to jump ahead at times to find out what happened but I was patient and waited. I was definitely not dissapointed! The use of books is also very entrenched into this story's narrative and it made me look back on the books I had loved as a child and how they changed me.