this definitely did some interesting things with its format (some of them i liked, some i really didn't). it doesn't help that i am, chronically, a bit of a mystery hater. they tend to annoy me.
absolute highlight of this book for me was Karen's relationship with her family (my favorite character overall being Deeze, he fascinates me). it's why i liked the final 15% of this book so much, it delves much more into the emotional core of the book whereas all the mystery bits previously i was mostly just tolerating to be able to get to Karen's family interactions.
this book honestly tried to tackle too many topics at once, and was also just quite the downer without any breaks from the sadness. i know it's the sixties, a lot happened in America in the sixties, but that doesn't mean everything from the sixties needs to be jammed into one book 
i'll probably read the sequel seeing as it looks like it'll lean moreso into Karen and Deeze's relationship which is what i'm really interested in, but overall i wouldn't really say i enjoyed this read or got much out of it (also, unrelated but the way the panels were formatted/arranged made the progression on each page incredibly hard to understand and kept pulling me out of the story).
damn this is my first review i'm writing on my computer instead of my phone and i think this is what i'll switch to regularly doing reviews on, i'm finding it much easier to format my thoughts this way. + keyboard go tappity tappity tap