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Guys: I know it's early but I'm going to proclaim this the best book I've read this year. I'm not kidding. I was sucked into this book from the first few pages, and couldn't put it down (at 600 pages, it was quite the arm exercise). Characters are all believably flawed without being dumb, the storyline makes sense, it all gets wrapped up at the end but leaves some questions unanswered (so we can talk about them in book club, weee!). The writing is superb. Lots of different styles, which normally drives me a little nuts because the author is trying to show off, but here it works. The book makes observations about many different things through the dialogue of the characters, so I will have to re-read it to underline some things. Your empathy for characters changes as you learn more about them (sometimes with these types of books, I don't really care about the supporting characters and jump over their chapters. Here, I did not). This book is entirely unpretentious, a slow burn of a read that will make you think these characters are people you actually know. I can't wait to hear what others think.