I really wanted to finish this, because I think it could have been an incredibly important piece of literature. The writing is just so not great though, unfortunately. I think this also suffered from a lack of editing, and was far too long winded. Perhaps because of the publicity behind it there was limited ability of editors to make changes? I wish it had been powerful, because it needed to be. 

I should have known when I saw it had won the Pulitzer that I would hate this. I have such a terrible track record with that prize. This book was whiny and self centred and I tried so hard to like the characters but they all had this sort of self dislike for themselves that I just couldn’t muster up any interest for a character so uninterested in them self . And as the entire plot was character growth it fell so very flat for me. Skip this one. 

Trite, cliché, and full of terrible black and white, us vs you, morality. It's like he wanted to be super woke but didn't actually have anything to say. Sad, because his earlier books were pretty good but it's like he has run out of stories. Avoid this if you can.