I really liked Little Fires Everywhere but I lowkey liked this one more. I always love a good family drama, and this essentially just captures how a family deals with grief and with the unknown. It's not a murder mystery or detective story where they're trying to figure out how she died, but more of a tracing of how each person feels like they didn't know Lydia well enough and their regrets throughout their life. I really loved how it also focused on the parent's story which just added that extra layer to really pull us into the fabric of their family and what it was like to deal with racism/xenophobia, however subtle. I feel like this captured grief and loss between siblings really well, and I think about this so often. Like Little Fires Everywhere, the last few lines just completed gutted me:

“When a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.”