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My copy trans. by American Margaret Swanson Lacy with an unfortunate pink-tinted cover. The image here is closer to Cassatt's painting and with yellow title.

Well. One question is answered. Two to go.

I am 2/3 through this book and still waiting to understand what this novel is doing. Not horror, but kind of horrible. They get the animals wrong. They almost always do. The goats. I like multiple POV characters, but while the writing is excellent, the situation was too pitiful. I taught students in similar family situations [seriously] and this is just so very sad. Sad doesn't cut it.

To me, it's still dysfunctional-family instead of some creepy version of fantasy. I'm enjoying being in the heads of multiple characters.

I don't like these people, but then neither does the author. I recognize many of their struggles from childhood through adolescence, young adulthood, parenting... The stories make me uncomfortable by familiarity without being in any way revelatory.

Excellent writing, but not appealing to me—not the author's fault. Some seems biologically... unlikely? Read "The Vanishing Point" halfway through and tried to skim and gave up.

Don't buy this edition, it's riddled with typos!

"apocalyptic" in every sense

love the first chapter. There's a lot of invented slang that I am loving, The story is set in a post-apacolyptic Pacific NW in an area called Dismal Notch, which is a real place and local, but not the one in this novel.

I am determined to finish today.

She's finally directly addressed her charge to her charge.