I think this novel went in a different direction that I originally thought it would. I think I had expected it from the description to kind of dwell in the first part the entire time, rather than those three different sections of present, past, and the voices. I think the voices of her mother and grandmother did a fabulous job of showing that not only is generational trauma passed down, but just who our families are constantly pervade our lives as we know them, for better and for worse. The refelctive nature of the novel is done in a very quietly elegant way--the thoughts never felt too profound or like an unreal conclusion for someone to come to in her position.