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mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
“The Hole” is kafkaesque, atmospheric, and surreal. Studio Ghibli in the Japanese Countryside.
A wonderfully mundane snapshot of a life in transition. The reader is smothered in a cloud of amnesia with Asa. What happens when we live outside of what society expects of us? Oyamada does an intoxicating job of addressing every physical sense in the scenes of “The Hole”: how toes feel, flooded by heat from pavement; when the hose is too far away to hear anymore, we only hear cicadas; falling into a hole that fits your exact shape; time slipping through fingers. And then there’s the extreme heat. And children and brothers who may or may not even be real. I’m definitely left with more questions than answers, but in this case, it only adds to the allure of the tale.