Hoo boy, this was quite a story. Proof that when you have good, fleshed-out characters, that plot isn't necessarily that important. There is one, loosely, but mostly this is just how four siblings lives evolved through time and loss and how they grew together and apart through those years.

I would say that the problems I had most with this book was structurally. The author made it seem like they were following each sibling throughout a set of years, but then there would be a strange jump from that character's narrative to the mother's narrative and then back again and also some meandering between the characters but back to this character and kind of out of time as well, which jarred me out of my central focus.

I also think that a couple of the siblings' endings were sudden and not particularly as well executed as the others, especially when it comes to dealing with mental health. But overall, quite a powerful and striking read.