Cloud Cuckoo Land

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr is a book about the importance of writing: writing stories, information, feelings, instructions, anything that strengthens rather than divides the bonds of humanity, especially during these divisive and conflicted times. Spanning several continents and time periods, the frenetic plot is nicely tied together in the end. Somewhere in this sprawling novel lurks a cautionary tale about AI and the havoc humans are wreaking on our planet. I'll be pondering the lessons embedded in Cuckoo Land once the covid-induced dumpster fire in my head subsides. This may be my new all-time-favorite book (beating out John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany), and I may have to check out some of the author's other works, such as All the Light We Cannot See.