"I learned that death, in the beginning, demands that people pay attention to the small details." Yas, the novel's protagonist, believes she killed her brother when she prayed to God to take him instead of her rabbit. The family's life is turned upside down after the death of their eldest son, Matthias. Yas dons her red coat and vows never to take it off, her other brother's grief turns to cruelty, and her younger sister dreams of running away from the farm. "This isn't one of those novels that makes you step back to process what just happened. It's one that draws you in from the very first word." Ted Hodgkinson Chairman of the Spoken Word Commission and a Booker Prize judge "A debut novel about shattered innocence and how it offers both solace and horror." "Parol Segal" New York Times "It's a novel that doesn't shy away from stating cruelty explicitly, but it's a justified cruelty. It introduces the reader to a narrator who doesn't adhere to conventional narrative techniques, but who is nonetheless unforgettable." "Holly Williams" The Guardian