To me, the book felt lacking in both plot and prose. Despite the potential to address urgent topics like the mental health effects of war, racial discrimination, drug abuse, homophobia and childhood trauma, the story danced around them without arriving at anything meaningful. It seemed as if the author compromised on clarity for poetic elegance and tried too hard to seem deep.

I'm usually one to enjoy stream-of-consciousness narratives, but this one felt disjointed, with incongruous words strung together in an attempt to pull off a convincing pretension of a good book. The dense metaphors fell flat. It didn't live up to the hype for me :/