I should have known when I saw it had won the Pulitzer that I would hate this. I have such a terrible track record with that prize. This book was whiny and self centred and I tried so hard to like the characters but they all had this sort of self dislike for themselves that I just couldn’t muster up any interest for a character so uninterested in them self . And as the entire plot was character growth it fell so very flat for me. Skip this one.