I’d read Mosley’s 1st Easy Rawlins novel. It wasn’t quite for me but I liked his writing so tried again. This about love and families but also generational trauma by the police and a brutal “justice” system. Ghalen has a mom who is a smart scientist and a dad who was already thought to be a bit “slow” (but an amazing cook) before a police assault gave him a head injury. Ghalen grew up having to take care of his dad and survive his own tough situations. Ultimately a love story. There is one seen of very graphic prison assault in the very latter part of the book which really took me out of the story, perhaps not a big deal if you’re not sensitive to those things, but it was jarring to me.