Didn't finish. I have such fond memories of Bishop's work, as an early teen her series were the best thing in the world to me. But now, now I just want one character, even one, to say the word rape. Or go to counseling, or maybe. Maybe. She doesn't have to spend the entire book demonizing a black man, and stopping just short of calling him a thug. Oh, and his children, and his casual prostitute wife. I couldn't finish this book. 
 And maybe I'm just sensitive to it, but how many loving descriptions of a hunk of dinner meat are needed? Seriously, the author must have been a reluctant vegan or something.