A Long Petal of the Sea

At times the character arcs felt a little unrealistic or maybe overwritten? You didn’t have to work for a lot in terms of understanding the characters. Some of the movement through time felt rushed.

That said, it’s a beautiful book, which touches on important themes like the constant modern fight against fascism, class, race, how a life-long partnership can have many different phases, and the cruelty of war and anti-leftist ideology. An important book for our times.