What book have you recently read that really impressed you?

I like a lot of books I read, love a few, and ditch the ones I don’t like. But I am very rarely impressed.

I’ve just finished a novel that truly impressed me. It was interesting, engaging, literate, and artfully conceived and executed, and it had an unusual feature, something I don’t recall ever encountering in fiction before.

So yes, I asked this question partly to tell about this book I just read (which I will do presently) and partly because I want to hear about other exceptional reads.