Returning so many months later to review this book has been a strange experience. By the time I finished All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, I found that I needed to sit with it for a while—let it steep—before I could discuss it in any meaningful way. Anyway, I read All the Light We Cannot See in February, 2021, and my period of processing has finally reached an end (This review was written on December 12, 2021. This revision was completed on April 24, 2023.). Rating: 4.5/5 Buy All the Light We Cannot See . Blurb from goodreads: "Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sist