I was a tiny generous with the fourth star. This book was so intense and layered, but as the author pulled the strings to complete the story I felt it unraveled that beautiful texture she had going. Thank you NetGalley for an advance read of this book.
I love when Proctor says he saw grief when he looked at Althea the first time. I think that is the big motivator of this book. Grief, huge grief and the author makes us feel this gut-wrenching loss. But the loss just goes on and on. Destructive behaviors, fractured relationships, mis or non communication just battle it out in this story. But instead of dealing with the conflict as richly as she set it up, I felt it left the ending flat.

This book is amazing. I loved the diversity of the characters and their perspective of the same event unfolding. I loved the age range, the life experiences and everything that came with it. Althea was so heart breaking and her twins were so real. Everyone was flushed out and 3 dimensional character-wise. It was a great book that I'll be thinking about for weeks to come.