Maybe it was because the audiobook reader had a very childish voice, but every time the main characters age came up I was thrown that she was in her late 30s and not late teens. Her general ambivalence and lack of clear purpose also added to this, but maybe if I had read the ebook instead that would have felt more like a consequence of the upheaval she was surviving and less like an adolescent trait. 

The conversations around family and belonging were well done, but either I lost focus near the end, or the themes were not drawn through. 

The horrors of the upheaval were very difficult to hear, and those conversations were gripping.