That's totally fair, like I'm no expert on what goes on in the mind of a child who's being abused (thank God) so it might be way off, but there were somethings in the book that Turtle went through that I could relate to so that he got right for me atleast. If that kinda stuff happend to you I'm so goddamn sorry

I agree, it is voyeuristic, but what would be the altenative? If the invicible narriator stepped in to clarify the horribleness of the situation it would stop being from Turtle's perspective. It wouldn't be orfentic to the realness of the situation because the author knows that all that he describes is awful, and he knows that all of the people reading it thinks so too and that's the point. This is as normal to Turtle as having a stable family life is to so many others, and I think only by describing it as normal as possible we get that orfentic voyeuristic point of view that you get in real life, where you can point and criticize and know better than a broken person but it don't really mean a damn thing cause you ain't in it, and you can't sway a person to see their world in anyways different than they see if from their perspective, they have to learn that on their own, and that's what happens here. That's the magic of books, to see another life from a different soul, where their point of view matters more than your own. And I honestly think that the only way to write this book or any book is to write it voyeruristicly, we don't get the whole picture if a guy keeps pausing the emotions to confirm to us that this is indeed bad

You ain't got to be no dick about it :))