East of Eden

I just finished this and can't really articulate why I loved this book so much but I was deeply invested in the outcome from the get. It feels pretentious to say that it is the human experience in a book, but hey. The character development is so intentional. The prose is just flowery enough. The language can be problematic at time (not a reason I liked it, just a note). Dragged my feet getting to this one because I had assumptions and you know what they say.