The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

This was pretty enthralling. I put it down at one point and said to myself, there is not one likeable character in this story. And that's okay. I don't need characters to be likeable. Edie's a little rough with her violent outbursts and Mae, Mae is just something else. They could be a product of their environment, or it could be genetic. I think it ran deeper than just being raised by worst mom of the century. I'm knocking off a star because I found the most interesting part of the entire novel to be the end chapters and they just cut off. Damn.
And this is neither here nor there, but the book is set in the late 90's (with some flash forwards and some letters that reveal the past) so I guess I thought that would be significant and it's really not. There are no current events or pop culture mentioned. I guess the timing just landed there because Dennis was a Freedom Rider.