3.5 Honestly I've tried to read this book multiple times years ago and never really got all the way into it, but right now the slowness was what I was looking for. Throughout there were pieces of both time-based and generally and always icky misogyny (and for sure ableism). Regarding looks and young womanhood, the way Iris thinks about herself reads to me as odd. But it's a very interesting character book, with raveling mysteries and Maguire's way of showing ugliness of human character kind of matter-of-factly. And I loved the juxtaposition of the rest of the book and then the epilogue, which is really what made a difference for me.