Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish

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The characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A daughter in early 20th century Chicago; a hobo during the Great Depression; an office girl in 1950s Manhattan; the young man reveling in 1960s San Francisco, then later tends to dying friends as the AIDS pandemic hits; as the new century opens, a man who has lost his way finds a measure of peace in a photograph he discovers in an old box-an image of pure and simple joy that unites the themes of this work.

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Unusual and beautiful submitted by emjane on August 31, 2015, 12:23pm Though the books structure (written in rhyming couplets) is a bit distracting and seemingly conflicting with the serious content at first, after a chapter or two the reader can get in a rhythm and the book becomes something that feels like a significant work. After finishing, I was tempted to start it over again, to see the interconnections between the stories.