This book is excellent at setting and atmosphere as well as capturing that sense of stuckness that accompanies being trapped, not officially but practically, in a situation. I'm less enthused about the murder mystery. I had trouble keeping my attention on it. The generational trauma and the interconnections of it all started to make sense right towards the end, but in the middle it seemed like it should have been a series of interconnected short stories. I put it down for a while in the middle because I was struggling. I wish the experience in the middle had been more like the experience at the beginning and the end.