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Nancy Van nancyvdniet — Here's the setup: a bunch of richies and dignitaries and businesspeople converge in the mansion of the Vice President of a poor, unnamed South American country. The guest of honor, a Japanese businessman, Mr. Hosukawa, thinks he's there for his birthday party, but really, the South Americans brought him in so he'd decide to invest in their country. But the only way they could get him to come was by paying loads of money to bring his favorite opera singer, Roxane Coss, to perform at the party. Roxane is singing her last song when all of the lights go out, and the party is cut short by a band of gun-wielding terrorists looking for the South American president. He's not at the party (having stayed home for a potentially embarrassing reason I won't disclose). So they decide to just take everyone at the party hostage until their demands are met. What follows is a several-months-long standoff between the terrorists inside the mansion and the police and Red Cross outside. Neither side will budge. And inside the house, boundaries between terrorists and hostages, South Americans and Russians, men and women, become blurred. Over time, complex relationships form among the people inside the house, and these relationships are at the center of this novel. Patchett's characters make this book. They are sympathetic and multidimensional. That's one of the best parts; the characters, like real people, constantly evolve. They cannot be pinned down as "bad" or "good," heroes or villains. Their actions are impossible to predict, and this makes them fascinating. And Patchett juggles them easily. She shifts from one perspective to the next several times within chapters and describes the same events through multiple pairs of eyes to flesh them out. She's also really good at getting inside people's heads. The way she describes emotions is dead-on, and this also makes it easy to empathize with all of the characters. As for opera, let's be real: I've never listened to it, nor have I been interested in doing so. But the way Patchett describes opera makes me want to go out and get some. The music becomes another of her characters. It lives inside the house, and it changes what happens inside. Patchett's characters mark time by music (waiting for the music, listening to the music, and reflecting on the music), and the story can be broken into similar chunks based on what's happening with the music at any given time. Highly recommended. Let's talk about this book while we stand barefoot in unmowed grass because reading this makes that sensation sound so incredible. Right?