This was an incredibly intense and difficult book to process. The themes it deals with are heavy, confronting, and often deeply uncomfortable. At its heart, this book is about identity, trauma, and the ways people are shaped and damaged by the world around them. One of the most striking elements of the novel is its exploration of LGBTQ identity and the pressures placed on queer people by both society and family. The characters are navigating a world that is openly hostile to

A crime novel that wanders into folk thriller.