Never Let Me Go

I ordered a bunch of older (but new-to-me) books from the NYT Best Books of the 21st Century list and this was up first. It was absolutely wonderful. Wonderful and upsetting. The sort of haunting book that sticks with you for a very long time. I realized about 70 pages in that I had seen the movie, but I saw it long enough ago that luckily I didn’t remember most of the plot. The book centers around three students at an exclusive boarding school in the English countryside. We don’t know much about the students’ backgrounds, or even the school really: just that creativity is really worshipped and encouraged. I don’t really want to tell you more than that (besides the fact that this is a must-read!). We follow the students into young adulthood as their lives take different paths. There is a bit of a love triangle and little sci-fi element, and a shocking twist about halfway through. The writing is exquisite. It broke my heart (I cried!) and I loved it so much. I can’t stop thinking about it!