whew, the ending made me big mad.

a story told from the mother's POV about reckoning with loving your child yet having the knowledge they committed murder and now are free from prison and have to live with that for the rest of their life. and their victim's parent lives down the street.

The focus on love // obsession and the justice system, atoning, and drugs.

this is not really a book i'd normally pick up but i read it for the wisconsin literary awards. i truly wish the ending was not...that.

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i was just really irritated that in the end, the son was not the killer, just there and high as hell and the MOTHER of the victim had murdered her on accident and then went on to paint him as evil. also the addition of the victim being bisexual and the son and the other girl being in a tragic love triangle was just so meh to me