I'll be honest, it doesn't get any less rough, but eventually you learn to accept that you can't understand everything that the narrator has to tell you the fir

I'll be honest, it doesn't get any less rough, but eventually you learn to accept that you can't understand everything that the narrator has to tell you the first time you read it. Only after reading the whole story was I able to unwind the complex layers of context that underpin the protagonist's narrative from the very first page. It is worth the effort IMHO.