Maybe this was not the best time to pick up a massive, historically-accurate novel about a domestic prison camp that was designed and run with astonishing cruelty by incompetent racists to eliminate as many of their otherized enemies as it could before being shut down, but this book had been on my to-read list since 2014. Apart from a few standalone chapters in the last third of the book, where I could tell they were going to end with the character's miserable death and so I skimmed the lengthy descriptions of their idyllic pre-war lives, I wanted to read all of this dense and powerful book, so it took a while, but it was worth it.