There There

The stories in this book where quite interesting, and the characters were good (though I struggled to tell them apart at times). Unfortunately I think there were a few too many characters. It spread the story too thin over many themes, all of which are deep, sensitive, important topics that need focused attention. I would have liked a deeper exploration of these things, and I think the frequent perspective change somewhat hindered that. I didn't love the change in narrative style, which causes the reader to readjust too often to a new writing style. I know there's likely a reason for this that I have completely missed, so I recommend checking out other more eloquent (and academic) reviews than mine. I also recommend looking for Own Voices reviews of this book because I have likely missed very important things in my review. What I did like was the ease of reading this book. It painted a very good picture and was very accessible.