I finished this book yesterday, and I've been thinking about it constantly. How to describe it, how to describe why I liked it so much? It reminded me of a much darker, much more grown-up, much uglier On the Jellicoe Road, mixed with the fever dream elements of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and the hectic "how did we end up here" feelings from the movie Go. But it's also its own story, unique and beautiful and disturbing. 
 The characters in this book are so very alone, and so very in need of family and companionship and to know where they belong in the world. Not knowing (or not able) to find what they need drives them on, and I was engrossed with them until the very last page. 
 2016 reading challenge: a book set in your home state