Spoilers. I really liked this. I found a few things that didn't ring true, but overall it is a really good book. It twists around to tell the story. I wasn't sure I understood everything that happened, especially with Nelly & the Savior. It was a little like real life, in that it moved around & the main character did things that didn't make sense & that didn't show him in a good light. I don't really know why his marriage fell apart so badly, unless it was his inability to connect. I'm a sentimentalist so I hoped that he would learn something profound in his wanderings and go home & be able to change his life. OK, so it is a modern serious novel & leaves things hanging. I'm going to give it 5 stars to offset the 3 star person. It was strange too, the main character felt so isolated, but many other people were working to tell the story of the 1984 massacre. ( )