It’s hard to know how to express what I liked about this book. The story was very real, not sneaky or conniving, not ruthless or lustful, but oddly (maybe awkwardly???) real? Questions that one might ask themselves if they too were put into these characters’ shoes. Lots of what ifs and maybes and nevers and no ways. Raw but not in an agonizing way. Hopeful but in a cautious way. Wonderful to have felt part of the narrative as the reader.