Formally, works in conversation with Michael Ondaatje’s , Maggie Nelson’s , Amina Cain’s , and Kathryn Scanlan’s The novel also embraces a multi-register, journalistic storytelling that questions the tenuous line between objectivity and subjectivity in documenting the unreliability of history—both personal and collective—brilliantly balancing voids of loss, absence, and disappearance with moments of natural transcendence and miraculous phenomena.