On page 69, (heh) Isla is sitting alone in her father’s house considering crying about him but can’t find any tears. “How, she wondered, is one supposed to grieve an absence when that absence is familiar? What, she wondered, was grief without a clear departure to regret?” This novel depicts characters who have a complicated relationship to grief. What …
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