Great House by Nicole Krauss

Multiple stories are embedded in this novel about an antique desk and the people associated with it. Krauss is a good writer who presents challenging work by splitting her stories into fragments that are often hard for the reader to piece together. Great House takes the reader from NYC to London to Jerusalem without explaining how the scenes in these places are linked. That is something the reader must do by reading to the very end of the book. This same style of presentation is also used in her earlier book The History of Love and I really don't like it. Writing, plot, and character development are all excellent but I don't see the point of scrambling the story.