** spoiler alert ** 
 I know a lot of people struggled with the beginning of this book, but I absolutely loved it. It was like a really cool fairy tale. I struggled with the end. (Umm, spoiler alert?) When Cal runs away, I really didn't care. Cal's character changed so much after the runaway, that it was not believable to me. I kept thinking "Callie would not do that." And after the grandmother retreated to her bedroom for three years, I constantly wondering "what is she up to? did she die and I didn't notice?" And I was NOT okay with the explanation at the end, as to why she disappeared. But these complaints aren't really fair, I actually couldn't stop reading this book and for the most part, with the exception of the very end, I believed every word that Eugenides said.