The Changeling

I don't understand. I don't understand. But woo boy is the world in this book wild and nightmarish.

I cannot put into words the feeling I got when I finished this masterpiece.

This is the kind of book, though, that most people will hate with a fury that is rarely extinguished, and I can't deny them their hate, because this book is for people who don't mind loose ends dangling just beyond reach, and the plot still unexplainable after one tells it you what it meant (if there actually is one), and no one else.

This is about many things - alcohol, madness, children, trauma, consent, clairvoyance, solitude - and at the same time, it may seem rambling, precisely due to so many converging and diverging themes. Most books run with one or two, three seems like a stretch. This masterpiece handled seven themes with aplomb, and you get the suspicious feeling that this was because the author limited herself to seven.

TL;DR - read it if you're into Gainax endings, don't read if you like linear narratives and storytelling.