Really mixed feelings about this, so it's hovering at the 2.75 rounded up to 3 stars. I ultimately didn't care for the writing style (I'm a traditionalist when it comes to using correct punctuation for dialogue) and found the pacing quite slow. While the writing was rich and evocative, the plot moved very slowly and the moral felt somewhat heavy-handed.

The main thing I did enjoy was the portrait that it painted of white neighborhoods in South Africa and how self absorbed well-off white families could get. That said, reading a book where the shtick is "there's no black voices in this book when there obviously should be" reminds me a bit about that thing they say about jazz - listening for the notes that aren't there. And that's not really my thing.

Recommended if you're interested in reading about family dynamics during funerals, inheritance conflicts, and South Africa and don't mind experimental writing.