I'm mostly just confused.

I want to have liked this and I want to get it. But I'm left with so many unanswered questions and an unsatisfactory sense of "wait, was this implied? What about that?".

It's a bleak and well-written story and I think I need someone to explain it to me. 1.5 stars rounded up because I'll probably think about this for a while even though I didn't enjoy reading it.

I'm not sure who to recommend this to since I thought I would be the target audience.