This was... pretty disturbing to me, but in a way that was compelling? I did have to cheat and look up the ending on Wikipedia because I didn't feel I could finish the book if I didn't know how it ended ahead of time. Heim does this incredible thing with his narration where these details of the scenes he paints become so deeply haunting--not just the obvious ones, but all of them. 

Enormous trigger warnings for

detailed sexual abuse of children and a rape sequence

which I didn't know going in and would have approached with more caution if I did.