Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr)

Cloud Atlas for beginners! All the interwoven perspectives you love, with easier-to-swallow, straightforward narration. Here voices from 1452 to the not-so-distant future collide in an ode to human kindness, resilience, the enduring power of storytelling.

“There is magic in this place, the owl seems to say. You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you. He sits and breathes and waits and the Earth travels another thousand kilometers along its orbit. Lifelong knots deep inside the boy loosen.”