A review by yarnpirate
The River Midnight by Lilian Nattel

5.0

I loved this book! It is beautiful and human and completely enchanting. Each chapter follows a different character's life over the same period of time. While this could result in a tedious re-telling of the same events over and over again, each person's life is so unique that the overlapping moments are subtle and often brilliant. Even a major event which affects the entire shtetl looks different each time depending on how it impacts an individual's life. Conversations between two characters can even be quite different when examined from both sides, as so often our own perspective filters and changes our memories. Threaded through the novel is just a touch of magical realism, which adds an additional depth and vibrancy to the world of Blaszka.