Cloud chamber Book

This book is a prequel to the author's highly successful earlier novel "A Yellow Raft In Blue Water" (and having read that one several decades ago, re-reading it is in the cards for me now). Right from the start the writing is at such a high level of quality that I immediately entered that zone of reader's euphoria, anticipation, and excitement that this would be good. And so it was and remained for the duration of the book --- not just good, but exceptional. I continued to bask in that emotional "high" that gives meaning to reading when writing is at this level of quality. This is a multi-generational family saga (through five generations) that begins in Ireland and ends in Montana. It's compelling, gripping, evocative, lyrical, poignant, powerful, and absorbing (this list of descriptive adjectives could go on and on). Reading this has been a highly satisfying endeavor. I picked this book up totally by chance from one of those "little libraries" and realize now that I was indeed lucky that day.