The saddest most engrossing book I've read in quite awhile. Completely had me enthralled and that's a really strange thing considering all the violence that's encapsulated in these 336 pages.
Beautiful, beautiful writing about real family trauma. A lot of sympathy shifts from one character to another as the story unfolds. Then extraordinarily, (almost impossible to fathom actually) at the end, a feeling of hope.
I don't know how Jung Yun pulled that off?? I was on the verge of detesting almost every character in 'Shelter' but somehow I'm left softened on every front. It's downright bewildering the genius in that.
5 star read all the way. Beware if you have triggers of rape & domestic abuse.
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