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A review by yourspookymom
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
5.0
"Aren't you scared of me?"
"What I'm really scared of is believing that the words society makes me speak are my own. You're different. That's how I know you're from another planet."
Earthlings might have moved into my all time top 5 favorite books. It was unbelievably painful; a story that hollowed you out and put you back together. I could not put this down. The social commentary is strong and I think a lot of us can relate to the main character, Natsuki, in more ways than one.
Earthlings is about the way of which society deems us a machine that must never, ever stop. That if we are to be anything but within the confines of what is deemed to be right, we are alien. It's about how childhood abuse and S.Abuse shape an individual and how one can never really recover from that level of harm. It was agonizing to read this but the end was so dark and twisted, yet redemptive.
I wanted to tear my skin off reading this. 5/5 stars.
"What I'm really scared of is believing that the words society makes me speak are my own. You're different. That's how I know you're from another planet."
Earthlings might have moved into my all time top 5 favorite books. It was unbelievably painful; a story that hollowed you out and put you back together. I could not put this down. The social commentary is strong and I think a lot of us can relate to the main character, Natsuki, in more ways than one.
Earthlings is about the way of which society deems us a machine that must never, ever stop. That if we are to be anything but within the confines of what is deemed to be right, we are alien. It's about how childhood abuse and S.Abuse shape an individual and how one can never really recover from that level of harm. It was agonizing to read this but the end was so dark and twisted, yet redemptive.
I wanted to tear my skin off reading this. 5/5 stars.