Long Day's Journey into Night

Intense and harrowing. Realistic and hyper-realistic and melodramatic all at once. It was simultaneously impossible to and impossible not to feel compassion for the Tyrones. Their hyperactive emotions were hard to take. Each conversation would begin to seem too raw and overbearingly naked, but by the end of the speech it was too tragic not to believe. I felt I had to read this book sideways rather than head-on.