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Jan 12, 2019ReaderWriterSTS rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
The writing is elegant, but at times its elegance gets in the way. The unceasing descriptions of the dreary landscape become grating, even as well-written as they are - and perhaps that is exactly as the author intended it - to cause the reader to experience the dreariness as relentless and gnawing and insistent. For me, this was a story about how the tentacles of tragedy embed themselves wholly into the hearts and minds and souls of the generations that follow and how those tentacles cause each person to move and adapt both unique and familial ways.