I don't know what it was about the writing but I just didn't care about anyone or anything that was happening.
Maybe Mrs. Richardson? but even for being a central figure her impact fell short imo.
With peace and love, this book could've been 100 pages max with all the nothing that was going on. 
I genuinely loved some of the themes explored, the brutal logistics of coming back from systemic disenfranchisment in particular, humanizing the often-dehumanized, legal prejudice etc it was great until the author decided to undermine it all with that ending (

I don't mind predictable endings and I love an unreliable narrator as much as the next, but a predictable ending thrown in at the very end with poor pacing, and so many missed forshadowing opportunities? Yeah it didn't hit.

) A big miss for me.