Rare perspective of an adopted child
It is worth bearing with the smartypants narrators in this novel to fully realize how traumatic (and previously unexplored) the adopted person's experience is or can be. Any reader will be rewarded by its spectacular denouement.
Its Canadian 'cottage country' local and a particularly 'Canadian' hurricane might have been limiting but for Ms. Palmer's first rate talent at generalizing the experiences of her protagonist.
Once read, you will never use the word 'bastard' again.