Private investigator, Tess Monaghan is bedridden in the third trimester of her pregnancy. She is bored silly and passes time by watching events of the world from her bedroom window. She becomes intrigued by a woman dog walker in a green raincoat who passes by daily. One day, and for several days after, it is only the dog who passes by. Kick back and enjoy the mystery that unfolds as Tess takes in the dog and investigates, bedside, what happened to the woman in the green raincoat.

“The core reason for it all was beauty. Walking was a divine delight. Everything was rewritten when he was up in the air. New things were possible with the human form. It went beyond equilibrium.” It is 1974 in New York City, and Philippe Petit, while tightrope walking between the Twin Towers, is unaware of the lives he is impacting beneath him. Colum McCann’s, Let the Great World Spin, is a story of twelve lives effected by Petit’s fearless walk. From a family dealing with the wounds of Vietnam, a monk battling with his vows, to a struggling artist; McCann weaves their lives together and beautifully demonstrates the grit, joy and tragedy of the human experience.