I wish I could say this is a good book, it's sincere and it has big thing (Big Things!) to say, about poverty and how it's a trap, and how you do it to yourself and how other people do it to you and how you help each other, and how people work with each other to help each other survive poverty, and about how grief stickies up the threads of the spiderweb. Alas, it's not a very good novel; all the timelines and POVs kinda muddle, the characters and the events all kinda run together, and though there is lots of incident it never really feels as though there's a lot of story movement, and if there's some actual story point to the novel I wasn't able to see it.
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