Earthlings
As a premise, perhaps a YA(ish) novel, set in Japan? I have no idea how I stumbled into this book.
There’s a lyrical yet ethereal tone to it.
But certainly not YA material.
“Earthlings baffled me.” Page 97.
Ah yes, gentle author, Earthlings baffle us all. Wrapped in eloquent prose, aforementioned, lyric-like at times, it’s a strange tale about growing up, only, not.
One so innocent, yet, also borne of perseverance and preservation. Old joke, surest proof there is intelligent life in the universe is the lack of contact.
The problem with taking notes while reading? Perceptions.
More than anything, the horror caught in Slaughter House Five, that kind of play, and touch of a Japanese Kilgore Trout?
It’s tone is, as I suggested lyrical and almost poetic, with gentle cadence suggesting a narrator who is quite young, and then it all turns sideways. Willing to confront any number of of unspeakable atrocities that are, regretfully, part of our collective human condition? Then, too, tackling, full-frontal the taboos of humanity, and in a way that that seems deceptively child-like, but lacking innocence?
More questions than answers.
Diabolical story.
Diabolical story with a wry, twisted grin.
