I knew this book would be a difficult read and it was. It’s a distant future novel about a post-technological world in which some people are invisible and there is huge social stratification between visible and non-visible people. As you’d expect, it’s a commentary on extreme racial injustices and prejudices and just how evil people in power can get, in ways even they themselves might not expect. It’s brutal and full of trauma with a few, not enough, moments of great joy. I liked the world building and the way the author worked with metaphor, but it felt heavy-handed, like more of a YA novel. Our main protagonist is female and she’s subjected to some horrific things and that’s a heavy lift from a male author.