This is a hard one to review. I feel topically, this book is about grief. Specifically how a family experiences grief with the loss of their patriarch. As someone who is has been intimate with grief since the age of 10 years old, it's a tricky subject for me to read about because I see these characters making so many mistakes or so many bad decisions because of their grief; but they don't know its their grief and it's painful to see these characters to do it because you have done it yourself. But theres so much more going on underneath that. I want to sit here and say the author such have pulled the reins back and focus more on grief than all the other problems but honestly, as chaotic as this book is, it so much represents what you go through and what happens when you lose someone very suddenly.