This was not an easy book on many levels. Good, raw, beautiful in its jaggedness, but definitely not easy and that complexity manifested just as much in how long it took me to read it. I loved the messiness even if it made me feel like I was always see-sawing back and forth between being deep in the characters and removed from them. I'm not...entirely sure how to read the end; not that I don't understand it, but I can see it going in multiple ways. Which is, I suppose, the point. It's part of what makes the messiness work.