A couple warnings: there is an Oedipal thread, sex between an adult and a minor, violence toward animals, and a dream about nonconsensual incest sex. 

There’s also some fantastical elements: people and cats talking to each other, another realm, things falling from the sky. 

Warnings aside, this is a well written story about time, purpose, understanding and reconciling the past, and searching for identity. One thing I don’t necessarily enjoy is that some things are left a bit up in the air. You’re led to believe some things, but there’s possibility they didn’t happen. I don’t usually enjoy that. 

It’s not often that I make note of passages or quotes when I read a book, but I left this one with three. I wasn’t in love with this book for a good part of it, though I never hated it, but I loved it by the time I finished.