Exquisite
This is not your standard novel. The prose is sublime, the content archetypal. A young girl's quest for her lost brother moves slowly, gently, and with utmost dignity along the knife-edge of material poverty. The movement from one place to another, the persons she meets and the time she spends, the scraps of family that enfold her and the beauty or squalor of her natural environs are all the plot there is. Seeking and finding, loving and being faithful, inner movement and growth are what the tale is about and for. It takes a leisurely heart to walk her path with her. This is not to be squashed into a few minutes on the subway--or maybe that is where it belongs. This is not your ordinary love, but a transcendent grace that insists it will not be quenched.
