Bel Canto

I've had this book on my shelf for ages. Somewhere along the line someone told me it was a must read and there it sat. My Man Booker 2009 short list read was interrupted by availability of the last two books so I picked this up and egads but it is spectacular. Ann Pratchett's ability to capture the relationships and feelings these characters have for each other; her ability to depict how situations and other personalities force us to look at ourselves, amazing. The book is really about the beauty in the human experience regardless of highest triumph or lowest failure and our humanity through it all. "All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how."