Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann 
Published: June 2009, HarperCollins (@HarperCollinsCA)
The Recommend:
I’ve read just the first chapter and don’t want to go the rest alone. Like the symphonious crowds that gather in opening scene, chattering at a dot in the sky, I’d rather know that there’s someone else on the sidewalk below who wants to talk it through.
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About Julie Wilson (@BookMadam):
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Julie Wilson is the guest host of the CBC Book Club, founder of BookMadam.com, and curator of the literary voyeurism project SeenReading.com.
She lives in Toronto where she is writing Truly, Madly, Deadly: The Unofficial True Blood Companion under the pen name Rebecca Wilcott (June 2010, ECW Press).
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I LOVED this book. I think it’s going to turn up on my best of the aughts list!
Julie… I haven’t yet started this book but everywhere I turn people are glowing about it. It’s ear-marked for January reading, for sure.
Thanks for commenting!
How timely — I was just looking for books to add to my list for the Harper Collins sale this week. Sounds great, thanks!
Worth every page.
It might interest some to have a peek at http://www.manonwire.com/
A website devoted to a documentary on the real live peripheral character of ‘Let the Great World Spin’.
PS – excellent start ABE!