The Eyes Are the Best Part

This is a book that reads like a culmination of a lifelong of experiences and discrimination and payback and feminine rage. 
Going in I was not expecting much from this book except eyeball horror (which there is plenty of) but this was so much more. 
Settling on a 4.25 rating because I found the first half a little boring but wow, I was actually SEETHING with rage for our character during the second half. 

Also I feel like this part is when you know you've finally grown up, so well written.

I know now that I was wrong to blame my mother for what happened to our family. And I don't resent her for her grief. It comes from a place of weakness, of powerlessness. Umma allowed the men in her life to control her, to tell her what to do, to make all the big decisions foe her. Without them, she's lost. Adrift at sea.