Reading for Pleasure

I.E. something I haven't really done in nearly two years. I am taking the time to indulge now that grad school is over. A former supervisor gave me People of Book by Geraldine Brooks. It's about a thirty-year-old book conservator who is called in on a rare book project in Bosnia, Brooks traces the history of the ancient Jewish manuscript that Hannah is restoring. At the same time the reader gets glimpses of Hannah's life and her stormy relationship with her mother. Brooks' descriptions and realism had me hooked in first chapter. Brooks uses several narrators to tell the story, but she does so masterfully. I definitely recommend People of the Book.