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Five lives, separated by centuries, bound together by a single fragile manuscript. Doerr leaps between a medieval siege, present-day small-town America and a starship fleeing a ruined Earth, and somehow makes the whole improbable structure sing. Tender, sprawling and quietly hopeful, it richly rewards the long stretches of attention that only a holiday allows, and leaves you oddly comforted that stories outlast almost everything that ever tries to destroy them.