This is a book about humanity, and spiderity (is that a word?) from it's peak down to it's rock bottom and then back again.

I don't want to talk too much about it because the story has so much in it, and to describe parts of it would overlook others. Needless to say I was very affected by the story, I cried a lot and felt real links to the plight of people, and to arthropods (that frankly I have somewhat an irrational disgust of).

I can't recommend this enough.