“It’s easy when bad people die,” he told her. “And it’s not easy when good people die, but at least it’s straightforward, and you know exactly how you’re supposed to feel. But when someone who was good and bad dies, someone you loved, but who hurt you…then you don’t know how to feel at all. If you’re sad, it feels wrong, and if you’re not sad, that feels wrong too.” “That seems complicated,” said Rosa. “And hard.” “People are hard,” Uncle Alfonso agreed. “Grief is hard, too.”

