As the assessment of the Daily Mail on the cover suggests: "surreal, Daring" is really surreal and very daring this book. Unfortunately, I can the "compassionate" and "Easily one of the best books of the year" did not connect. I may have been too spoiled by "The Tortilla Curtain". I find the cracks between the years 2025 and 1989 to 1993 (97) often inappropriate and confusing. In view of the action I am also disappointed because the story is very thin - it could be summed up in 3 sets. I liked also not persistent repetition that in 2025 the raging wind, houses are covered / destroyed and it's raining heavily - I have this more than understood by the 100th repetition - also means that we are responsible for this weather itself. Later - after long periods of rain - the sun shines mercilessly from the sky - is then pointed at the same penetrance in this debt we fact. Ty, the protagonist, but also all the other characters are "flat characters" and their actions can be after the first few pages already determined. Ty is and remains the "human hyena". This makes the book also boring. "Compassionate" I understand very little. I have, at best, develop compassion for Tys daughter who later - persevering on a Redwood - protested against deforestation by large timber companies. Compassionate refers here but merely on the fact that she has a difficult position in the family and is exposed to hostility by the timber company - but this is not very good linguistically mediated. From the vocabulary, the book is very demanding and would therefore be for students - about in grade 13, where this topic is covered in English classes - not suitable (unless there is an annotated edition). Overall, I am disappointed and the book would not recommend.
