This book fell middle of the road for me. I found the ancestry compelling and seeing how the family sins fell through the generations but because there is no order to these happenings, it feels extremely disjointed. In general it felt more like an anthology of short stories rather than a multigenerational family novel. The author’s prose is compelling and with a short page count she manages to provide multiple deeply complex characters in their own separate stories. I think heavier magic realism would have served this story to connect the chapters. I would give this author another try.