This is an odd book that I'm not sure I liked, but I also immediately went to the Goodreads questions/discussion page because it definitely left me thinking, which I appreciate in a book. The writing style is at times infuriating and hard to follow - I'm not usually a fan of stream-of-consciousness, and the lack of punctuation at times genuinely made me angry - and some of the characters were almost cartoonishly evil. But this book also has deep exploration of family dynamics and the trap of expectations. I don't know how to feel about this one, so I'll just end this review here lol.

If you like an ending where things are wrapped up in a tidy bow or at least you know what happens, this is not the book for you. The last 30 pages of the book is peak difficult to follow, and there is zero resolution. I gleaned what happened from the Goodreads questions page (I truly adore that feature), and in hindsight it's a bit obvious with all the foreshadowing, but in a 600-plus page book that is hard to follow and incredibly meandering, it's hard to keep track of foreshadowing and I don't even want to.