" All of these characters were so emotionally disconnected from one another, and the narrator's lack of emotion, made this a hard read. I felt like the narrator was beating into me the need to feel something for the other characters, yet not giving a reason to do so. She didn't care enough about anything. She was also slow-witted, not realizing things that were happening in the family and in her own relationships, until it was far too late to do anything about it. I felt like someone was telling a story about something that happened to someone they barely knew, just reciting facts and announcing events in a way that declared that empathy must be the obvious result. "
— Shelley, 2/14/2014