Intense, personal, beautiful. The way he depicts snow falling can make you cold on a 90-degree summer night when you need the fan on to be able to sleep. I read it in a 24-hour period (I stayed up an hour past when I should have in order to finish it.)

Why have so many people on AllConsuming read it, though? I only heard about it from one newspaper article a few years ago, and a lot of books I’d have thought would be more popular had fewer readers.