The author really nailed the feel of working class Cleveland: the food, the drinking, the way everybody in the neighborhood was in everybody else’s business. It was moderately creepy (I’ve seen this categorized both as horror and as dark fantasy), but I wanted it to be creepier. Perhaps the subtext was too much.... text. This was largely about the way that girls were controlled and policed and how some of them rebelled, but it felt a bit heavy handed sometimes.