This book gets so many things right and leaves things impossible to "make right" perfectly alone to tell their own stories.

Oakland - > a place where it’s possible that the person who gets hit by a bullet wasn’t its intended target - check

Kids watching women cook, sit, drink, mourn - check

Addictions to drugs, to booze, holding it at bay, the ways it hurts its hosts, the ways families (especially women and children) live around it, love around it, fear around it, have memories cloaked in it that they walk through all their lives - check

Death, revenge, regret, violence, love, flying, disappointment, belonging, being pushed out, moved along - its all here telling the uneasy story of human life