"The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood

For a large portion of the book, I hated it. The characters were unpleasant, the sisters' circumstances of virtual slavery among wealth very depressing, and the protagonist seemed cold and unfeeling. But to my amazement, I liked the book a lot by the time it ended. This was because of the way the protagonist came to terms with her life. ... misery, etc are part of life and in paradise there would be no journey because happiness is a garden walled with glass... you are stuck there. This summation, and the revelation of how much she loved her granddaughter, made her much more human and likeable in my estimation.