I devoured these pages in two nights. I had promised myself three, but after meeting my second goal, I couldn’t stop. I needed to know what came next. What came next was life. Life and death. And that was it. The story was hauntingly beautiful, and it pulled me under. It even drew tears from me. I felt such sorrow for them. The thought of not being able to comfort a child in desperate need of affection, and how that breaks them for life. And then she was alone. While I love works that probe...
