It's not often you come across a book like this. It's epic storytelling in both the classic and modern sense, but it's also a book that shows simply that love is love is love is love. It was beautiful and heartbreaking and wonderful. 
 Note: I highly, highly recommend the audiobook narrated by Frazer Douglas. Alexander Pope said, "Homer makes us hearers." Frazer Douglas is the voice you want to hear say Madeline Miller's words.