The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

This was on the best seller list this year so I bought it for the Library. I could not finish this book. It is not enough that I don't finish a book and give it time to get good. I read half of  this book and didn't care how it ended and decided to just stop. I spoke to a fellow teacher and they felt the same and also stopped reading mid-way through. I just found this book to be boring and blah. That is my opinion and you might find the book to be incredible.

Summary
Natalia Stefanovi, a doctor living (and, in between suspensions, practicing) in an unnamed country that's a ringer for Obreht's native Croatia, crosses the border in search of answers about the death of her beloved grandfather, who raised her on tales from the village he grew up in, and where, following German bombardment in 1941, a tiger escaped from the zoo in a nearby city and befriended a mysterious deaf-mute woman. The evolving story of the tiger's wife, as the deaf-mute becomes known, forms one of three strands that sustain the novel, the other two being Natalia's efforts to care for orphans and a wayward family who, to lift a curse, are searching for the bones of a long-dead relative; and several of her grandfather's stories about Gavran Gailé, the deathless man, whose appearances coincide with catastrophe and who may hold the key to all the stories that ensnare Natalia.