Today @KirkusReviews...

...I wrote about Beth Kephart's One Thing Stolen:

Nadia’s about as unreliable as narrators come, but she differs from most other unreliable narrators in a couple of crucial ways: first, she knows she’s unreliable, and second, she’s not actively trying to manipulate or mislead the reader. She’s desperate to understand, and to regain her own personal normalcy. She moves from the present to her memories and back again without warning; her descriptions of her surroundings and interactions are understandably fragmented and confused; she loses chunks of time without explanation, and sometimes without even noticing—all of those elements make for a challenging read, but one that allows the reader not just to empathize, but to actively share her experience, albeit second-hand.