A deeply disquieting book and one in which I enjoyed the first half more than the last half and the ending left me deeply uncomfortable. Adella is a young orphan girl who marries a much older disabled man and faces his dysfunctional family. Told from the perspective of Micha, the young boy who is her “Bridesman” and gives her away, it starts in the past and then moves forward in time to when the two meet 20 years later. #europacollective