Elizabeth Is Missing

This is a beautifully-written and altogether upsetting book. At no point did I feel "good" reading it, but it was important that I read it. The unreliable narrator has memory issues and in a plot that requires her to remember things to find resolution, these issues were only assuaged by the deft hand of the author who refuses to abandon her characters in melodrama or hopelessness. I wish I could say I liked it, but it isn't a likeable book for me. I respected it, and at times was in awe of it, and it will stay with me for a long time.