Emotional Tale Of Loss And Recovery. This is one of those tales where you know up front that it is dark... and then it gets darker. And darker. And darker. With just enough humor to lighten things up a bit... and then a gut-punch of a form that may be used a bit often (as another reviewer claimed), but which works within the tale being told here. Similarly, as this is ultimately a tale of *recovery* from such devastation, one element of the epilogue that I've panned as unnecessary and even detracting from other books in other reviews actually works in this particular tale. And it works *specifically because* of the tale told up to that point. Truly an excellent work, and very much recommended.