Chapter Eleven: A Kingdom Far and Clear

It is thanks to my grandmother for giving me a visually beautiful edition of Mark Helprin's Swan Lake trilogy, illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. (Those of you familiar with picture books may know Van Allsburg from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The Polar Express.) I had never read this story, but apparently it's a classic! Overall, I enjoyed it, but I could have done without the references to God, and although the very end was, thank goodness, hopeful, the final installment generally was rather heavy and hopeless. So I'm not sure if I'll be rereading this book, but I did enjoy reading it this first time through!