So many layers. Read for book club and done a month early because I read in one day. Very out of character - couldn't put it down because I needed closure. Life is complicated and unfair. Everyone sees things from a different perspective and has circumstances that can be peeled off like onion layers. The book didn't end the way I had hoped. Having to remind myself that it is only a novel. The problem is that the central circumstance of the book - a black man charged with a crime he did not commit, and dealt with unfairly by the court system - is real....not for this fictional character, but for so many others.