Cloud Cuckoo Land spans three different narratives and thousands of years.
Anthony Doerr fans can appreciate a substantial plot.
She does not speak until she’s three.
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Then it’s all questions all the time.
“Why do we breathe, Maria?”
“Why don’t horses have fingers?”
“If I eat a raven’s egg will my hair turn black?”
“Does the moon fit inside the sun, Maria, or is it the other way around?”
By the time she turns thirteen, every person she knows will be either enslaved or dead.
