Finished this a few days ago, and it won't let me go. In the moments after first finishing, I probably had a quizzical look on my face. I definitely thought "what was that?" and "what's the key here that I am missing?"

It's hold, though, lies probably in the fact that it ultimately asks the reader to assess their own way of thinking. (There is no key.) The novel invites you, by its third section, to really assess what happened in the first and second... and creates a question you didn't even know this book was going to be ABOUT. And then: is this way you perceive this story (these stories?) okay... maybe it's not?

I'm doing a terrible summation of what it was like to read and think about this. Or maybe it's right on point, because it left me bewildered and my brain chugging and I wanted to re-read it again but, alas, it was due back at the library. I have a feeling I may read it again down the line, though. I think it's saying a lot and it's a little hidden but I was fascinated more upon completion than during the reading (but, I was still always happy to be reading it whenever I opened it back up).

This would make a great book club book because of how it tests the reader and lays out something for you that every other person might look at differently, but still asks a couple of central questions that may not have right/wrong answers.