I don't think I can fairly rate this book, since I most likely would not have read it had I known what it was about. It's not that it was bad- much the opposite. But there are just some things that you don't want to think about, and being a mother, this book was exactly one of those things. I can't say that I'd recommend it to anyone either, but I'm glad that someone had the guts to write something so very brutal and beautiful.