This book was very moving. Each chapter has a different narrator. Some of them speak in a sort of 1940s style, and one of them is even in the form of poems. Some of the chapters dragged a bit for me because I wasn't interested in that particular narrator or story, but most of them kept me interested. If I could nitpick just a little,

I wish that the Keiko/Twitchy romance hadn't happened. I liked Keiko's character better before that, and I felt that Minnow's reaction to Twitchy's death would have been more impactful if he were the only one to have romantic feelings toward Twitchy.

But that's just a nitpick. Overall, I really felt for all the characters and the awful things they were experiencing, and I loved reading about how they still wove these uplifting community moments into their lives even through everything that was going on.