I received a free copy of this book via Voracious Readers only in exchange for an honest review.

CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING: this book and the review contain mentions of mental illness, depression, self-harm, suicide, rape and domestic violence.

With the numerous content warnings above, it's no surprise that my first impression of this book is that it is bleak. Bleak, but very honest, painfully so. As the parent of a young person with serious mental illness, it made hard reading, and it's honestly not a book I could recommend to her or to anyone else whose own problems and feelings resembled Amy's. But the book did help me gain some little insight into how it feels to be seriously depressed, to want to hurt yourself, to think about suicide as a possibility.
The two interwoven stories and the numerous changes of point of view made this feel a little choppy and disconnected, although the segments hung together and all helped make sense of the whole. I would have liked to know more of the parents' story, and was not entirely convinced by the mother staying with the father for so long after Amy was born. Their backstory did help explain why they behaved as they did though: Amy's disconnection reflected in calling them "the mother" and "the father" only mirrored their own from her and from each other.
Mostly this book just left me feeling so sad for Amy and wanting to make things right for her. And sometimes you just can't.