The Vanished Birds, by Simon Jimenez

The marketing for a book does a lot of work in terms of setting up expectations for what kind of a book you're reading, and honestly setting correct expectations is super important. It lets the right kind of readers find the book, and it lets the readers be in the right mindset to appreciate the kind of thing the book in question is doing.

All of which is to say: ( I guess this is spoilers, given that it's information the cover copy doesn't want you to know )

A good book, and a book that I think I would even say I mostly liked, but a book I have complicated feelings about in the end.