This is an intense novel that culminates in some pretty horrific violence that is sort of foreshadowed throughout and hinted at and finally comes to pass. There’s other novels that are similar in some ways — for example, Paul Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown or Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing — but where those novels begin with the violence and then start back to process and understand it, this one hints at it in the beginning and then barrels us forward until it […]