Well this debut (!) novel is quite simply full of some of the best prose I have ever read. Other writers would be lucky to come up with once or twice in their lives the turns of phrase that Leilani peppers this book with. The protagonist‘s devastating loneliness and lack of belonging are difficult to sit with, but at the end there is a glimmer of hope, of Edie stumbling into an art practice. I'd trust Leilani to take me anywhere w/ her next book.