I listened to this book on a hike and thought I would dislike it, based on how much some disliked it... but the fact that it interrogates the notion of the truths a small community establishes as children (particularly young men) grow into adulthood, makes it an interesting coming-of-age story for a community. Does anything unusual happen? Not really, but a lot of speculation takes place to create a comfortable answer for the questionable experiences that life doesn't provide answers for.