When I started this I could feel criticisms boiling in my head but as I wrote down a quote and another and another it all dissipated.

Read this in less than 2 days because I HAD to know what happened. Couldn't get enough.

It's a beautiful story following a Brazilian family after the mother dies in a car accident, but there is much left unsaid between the remaining father and sons. The narrator, the eldest, has a fabulous voice has he flits between his current life in London and his memories without his mother and being a brat teenager. The revelations he has are stark and beyond his years (perhaps hindsight from his current 46-year-old self). There is a major WTF moment after I had a clear expectation of a non-ending and it shook me.

I'm mad I got this from the library because I want my own copy to mark up and reread in the future.