Everything about this worked for me. The voice is just so enthralling, and the story, ostensibly? A memoir about her early life, and the Characters that are her father and mother. Not so much a rumination as to why she is the way she is, but just telling a really good story about them—eventually elucidating what these phantoms she has actually are, sure. It’s just non-stop enthralling in its verisimilitude, and so myopic in its doing that it becomes eminently relatable. Or, at least, I felt so, likening various deeds to my own experiences, not to mention the mythos of remembrance of one’s own childhood.