This is a nightmarish book, and for a long while you can't tell if it's all allegory or if the main character is losing their sanity and going paranoid. It does a clever thing, where the victim slowly moves into an oppressor. Taunting us with how we all never seem to question our own goodness in the stories we inhabit. The suspense and the weirdness of it all is masterful. So well written, and so consistently uncomfortable to read.