At a holiday party, I asked the hostess (whose home was filled with books) to recommend a favorite book and she chose this. I had a lot of “buts”: “But I don‘t really care for war novels; But didn‘t Hemingway already write about WWI nurses?” She told me it‘s fantastic and that it‘s about hope in a time of chaos and about perseverance over adversity. She called it epic and brilliant. How can you NOT read something when it is delivered like that?