I have so many mixed feelings about this book. The writing was pretty, but that's about the only thing I consistently liked about The Inheritance of Loss. 
 I understand that it's meant to be a very artistic, literary book, but the voice seemed so detached that I felt too distanced from the characters and the events of the story. I just couldn't bring myself to care about what happened to them. It was chapter after chapter of people sitting around, thinking about things, with very little actually happening. Things did start to pick up a bit towards the end, but even then, I was much more interested in the sociopolitical environment of the book than the actual characters and their nonexistent plots. 
 There were a couple of things I liked: Lola and Noni's parts, the judge's backstory (although I would have found it more interesting if I hadn't had to piece it together while slogging through the rest of the characters' scenes, and Mutt. (Seriously, that dog was the only character whose fate I genuinely cared about.) 
 If this book hadn't been required reading for a class, I doubt I would have been able to find it in me to finish it. Although there were a few parts that I found interesting and enjoyed, I don't know that they were worth pushing through the rest of the book.