Karen's Reviews > Tell the Rest

I liked this a lot and kept trying to snatch a few minutes to read it during my workday. While the writing isn't always great, I loved the psychology and complexity of it, the exploration of how a summer of abuse can affect someone's whole life and what might be going on when someone seems constantly about to explode. I liked how Delia was always making moral choices, and she usually chose wrong, but the choices weren't at all obvious, and you could see the deliberation and good intentions. I was often on the fence between seeing her as a good person having a hard time and crossing that line into not actually liking her. I liked that the author showed us a bit of Ernest's life as well but thought it was smart of her to focus mainly on Delia, since she isn't as qualified to write from the perspective of a Black man.
*Thanks to Akashic Press for mailing me an ARC.*