The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Wow, alright.

This book was unlike any book I've ever read, though that may only be because I'm 16 and mostly read feel-good YA novels.
But this was...incredible! There was so much going on, so many characters, so many things that I just couldn't keep track of but I still made my way through knowing enough to understand most of what was happening.
What really struck me was how so much happened, and Maali seemed like this hugely important character in many ways, while simultaneously feeling very unimportant as well. But there were characters that knew of him, and cared about him, whether kindly or maliciously. But then, by the very end, you find that life has moved on beyond him, and his photographs, his best friend, and his lover have all moved on from him, and everything that was Maali Almeida is over. It felt in some ways rather depressing, but there is beauty and hope in how he was able to start again, be reborn, with all knowledge of who he was and all his work and pain and love forgotten.