Reading this book is like having a dream which fills you with a growing sense of dread. At first it is the unexplained toxic event which we are made to understand as the reason this family has isolated themselves in a remote waterfront compound. Then the three sisters start describing the strange “treatments” and cures designed to keep them healthy and rid of the toxins. Drinking glasses of salt water until you vomit. Being sewn into burlap sacs and put in the sauna until you pass out. The “drowning game” where you are held under water in the pool. As the tale evolves, the home which first seemed a refuge from a dying world, becomes a sinister prison from which three girls are unable to escape. Truth in this book is a fleeting notion, with multiple narrators redefining who is I and who is you and what screwy things we do to each other in the name of love.