and in the very culture that allowed the crime to happen. It does right by Cassie not by lifting her up as an empowered woman getting back at a world that's wronged her — though she can be that, too — but by taking seriously the trauma and anguish that hardened her to begin with...
At some point I calculated exactly how long a shift was and calibrated all the times in the book based on that number, but that was a while before the final draft and if you try to make everything line up precisely I suspect you will be disappointed. The one rule that has to work ...