This book is just very sad and kind of devastating but it's also weirdly racist, maybe? Like there's all these lines about native Americans and I just couldn't figure out why they were there? Was it to tell us the parents were even worse people than we thought? Maybe it was representative of the views of people living in this place at that time, but even then it seemed very out of place, to the point I couldn't tell if it was the characters or the author.