Kala

???and the earth felt soft and i was above us, could see all of us from above, like i was dead and shattered about the sky with the stars looking down and i saw the way we fanned out to make a moving rope pushing itself through the grey grass??? 

had a bit of a hard time getting into this. most of the characters except mush didn???t speak to me basically at all until this picked up pace 30-40%. really missed some depth for some of the characters as well, most importantly titular kala, but also for aiofe, joe, aidan. i usually love a book where you???re dropped into a story without much context, which is sort of how the early part of this book feels, but it also felt like it was trying too hard to keep me at a distance? 

but i will say! there were also a lot of parts that spoke to me and stuck with me that could have been pretentious but edged enough towards heartfelt. 

???you knew then, in the face to face, that it had been wrong to think of aidan as a lost cause, that no one is the simple playing card you reduce them to, (???) that there???s this whole animal being to everyone and that in this animal being there???s a point where you and everyone else in the world can meet???