I enjoyed History of Love from beginning to end. I have to compare it to Jonathan Safran Foer’s works as much as I’d like to recognize it on its own.

I picked it up at Books Inc because it had a little recommendation note that mentioned Nicole Krauss is Foer’s wife. I thought, why not?

I’m a big fan of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, but I think her work, though similar to his in many ways, was more thoughtful, more believable, and had more depth.

With multiple protagonists whose lives are intertwined who help each other, unknowingly, to discover themselves, the story is rich with character development and alive with feeling.