A review by meghan111
The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang

4.0

Pretty amazing novel, I will be thinking about it for a long time. David Nowak, growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, is the heir to the Nowak piano company. He struggles with mental illness his whole life. After his idyllic relationship with childhood sweetheart Marianne ends, he marries a young woman from Taiwan who goes by Daisy. The story is told from his point of view, and then Daisy's, and then from that of their children.

What was really fantastic was how dramatic and gothic things get in the middle - the story becomes so gripping.