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I've cried occasionally at the end of movies - "The Royal Tennenbaums" is a real tearjerker for me - but I've never cried at the end of a book til I finished Irish author John Boyne's "The Heart's Invisible Furies". Sobs galore as I ended a book magnificent in it's humanity. Set in Dublin, Amsterdam, and NYC, it's the life story - told in the first person - of Cyril Avery, born illegitimate to a determined 16 year old girl, and who is adopted by a rather peculiar set of parents. Maude and Charles Avery provide a home for their adopted son, but he seems never in their hearts or minds. But Cyril grows up, finally coming to terms with his homosexuality in an Ireland bound to the Church, where acceptance of sexual and societal non-norms is very slow to come. But society does change in Cyril's 70 or so years of life. This book just teems with sympathetic but real characters. There's not a caricature in the bunch, nor is there an overwritten sentence. John Boyne's book is long - almost 600 pages - but I read it in one 24 hour period. I'm not going to make this a long review. All I can say is to please, please read this book. Along with Edward Kelsey Moore's new novel, "The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues", John Boyne's book are the two best novels of the year. I'm hoping "The Heart's Invisible Furies" will be issued in audible as it will make a marvelous listening experience.