RaveMinor LiteratureAs dire as its subject matter may be, however, Obreht never allows the book to fall into the easy traps of nihilism or pessimism. Its characters may be managing between apocalypses, but each carries their own variety of hope in the face of slow doom. Their struggle suggests that while this world may be lost, the people who live in it don’t have to be as long as they have art, magic, and one another.
