Powerful, poetic, culturally immersive, challenging. SpoilerNot everyone likes the way the child abuse is explored and ultimately responded to in this book, but as someone who works with abused children and therefore by extension, at times, their abusers, I need people to start to understand the complexity of child abuse. This book asks you to look at the systemic, societal ways we shape people into violence, and demands that you immerse yourself in the complexity of people and their environments. You're not supposed to excuse the child abuse (and the ending may leave some people feeling that's the point, though I disagree), but you are asked to do more to try and understand it which, when we are all complicit to a degree, is an admittedly uncomfortable experience.