I loved it. Great, if sometimes bitter, writing.  Frankly, bitter is my favorite style.  Sometimes the main character is a little self-pitying, but that only added to the piquant nature of the tale.  I understood the character's prolonged grieving for her brother, because a similar thing happened to me.  There's a very "true" quality to this book that - truly -  makes it a novel as opposed to a memoir.