(Library finally got the next two books in this series, so I can talk about the one every one else covered ages ago.)

I liked it! It's good that Vo isn't trying to do the same trick every story, because then it turns into this Agatha Christie game of trying to guess the twist, which would get old. This is more building out the world, and a meditation on a different kind of storytelling, specifically how many different ways there are to look at one person, especially when that person is no longer there to tell their own interpretation of a life. In this book there's no focus on folk tales or mythology, it's all painfully personal for the main character. It's slow and sad, and tender.