Not sure

This book has a lot going on. There's extensive allegory: justice vs vengeance, what makes.a monster, moral necessity, denial vs truth, the nature of community etc. All of this is intended to be mapped onto the notion that this is a.very near future society approximately one generation past a revolution of the type that might seem to be brewing right now. And it's that mapping I don't think works for me.I don't like my allegory to state outright what it's about. This setup leads me to complaints like how exactly did any society delude itself that it drove emotional abuse to extinction within a generation with a revolution that doesn't even seem to have significantly changed family structures, despite considering structural change an essential part of the process. Too much of the book looked back into this vague revolutionary bridge to modern events for !me and I would have preferred a straight up secondary world false utopia.

That said despite this one genre execution being not to my liking I really did like the rest.