This is a mismatch of thoughts to myself after reading the book. - fascinating the way Sally uses observations from movies and TV to inform her behaviour as she works with her therapist - I didn't love the way the ending unfolded, but it felt acceptable. - I wish Peter could have come clean to Sally and I believe she could have held his complexity as victim and perpetrator. Or maybe she could have figured it out herself! - Sally: grows/changes, develops relationships, was negleted and violently abused, is a woman - Peter: does not change, isolated and perpetuates his father's patterns, was abused through manipulation and coercion, is a man - I was outaged reading the final chapter where Sally has seemingly regressed and returned to mistrusting people, but Angela's note made me surprise cry! Trauma is not linear. Her community refusing to fragment around her was a lovely touch. - Love the linking of music throughout the generations (Conor, Sally, Amanda). What might it mean to recognize parts of ourselves we see in our monsters, and to make different meaning out of it?