So what is this book about? Great question! No clue! Well, not entirely true: so we have our narrator and protagonist born (I think) on the night of the Tugunska Event, in which a meteorite crashed in the far-flung parts of the Siberia, and according to the book at least, I’d have to fact-check, did not actually impact, but created a forced that flattened millions of trees in the vicinity. Years later, our protagonist is uprooted as his family is killed during the Russian Revolution. […]