Helm by Sarah Hall

I found this book through the New York Times Notable Book list, and while I enjoyed it, I am not quite sure that I completely go it. One thing is that the main character is wind, Cumbrian wind to be exact. The second is the time span, which is Neolithic times to the present, which is hard to fathom, but again, the wind is timeless. It changes in both quality and quantity over time, it is constant. Every era in the book has its own seeing; the same land, the same wind filtered through time-specific fears and hopes and work, time-specific attributes as well, from a neolithic world interpreted through animal behavior to the present with social media, pub menus, emails and the like. There is an undertone of what has changed and a little bit of why that would be, but it is the undercurrent of the story, not the story itself. It is wildly innovative, easy to read, and something to think about.