I have a complicated relationship with this book. I was sucked into it, and found the setting and plot really compelling. It is so my jam: a speculative fiction, society-falling-apart book that features motherhood and spirituality at it's center? But it just sort of. Ends. There are about a hundred questions left unanswered, but not necessarily in a way that I liked. 

On one hand, that's life and all. Most of what takes us to that ending was satisfying and interesting, so I don't regret the time spent with the book. On the other hand, I think it was a fundamental mismatch of reader to story -- the speculative elements that I wanted to dig my hands into weren't necessarily important to the key components of the story.