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This book may be short but it's not easy. It's written in the stream-of-consciousness style, with long sentences, unconventional metaphors, sometimes unique onomatopoeia, extensive vocabulary, and (thankfully only a couple) lines in a combination of dialect and old-man-slur that were nearly incomprehensible to me.
It was, however, a delight. A blend of slice of life, slapstick humour, mystery and even horror (in the atmosphere of increasing unease and doubt it creates), it effortlessly straddles the line between reality and delusion, and even sometimes blurs the boundaries of time itself. The world we see through the protagonist's eyes may be a strange one, but her observations and thought processes are often surprisingly familiar.
Don't expect clearcut answers or anything, this is a book that creates more questions than it answers. But if felt intriguing up to the last minute, and left me thinking about it long after I finished reading.