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A review by steffieg
The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P by Michael Emmerich, Rieko Matsuura
3.0
This is a very bizarre novel!! But I really liked it!
It is about a young woman who wakes up one normal morning to find a penis instead of her big toe! From then on her normal mundane sex life as well as her whole life take out an abnormal path! Her life starts revolving around strange sexual encounters. She befriends the Flower Show which is made up of people who also suffer from sexual abnormalities. Although this book is about sex and penises it rarely does anything to get the reader in the mood! On the contrary it describes the sexual encounters and the thoughts clouding Kazumi's thoughts (the protagonist) in such a striking plain manner that it detaches the reader from the thrill of sex immediately. The novel is meant to place the reader in an unemotional position watching Kazumi's emergence from naivete to adulthood. Almost the whole book (except the Prologue & Epilogue) is written from Kazumi's point of view so as the book progresses the majority of Kazumi's thoughts and reflections start affecting the reader's thoughts about sexuality. Also the enlargement of sexual bodily abnormalities by the author place the reader in a position to reflect about ordinary sexuality. After finishing the book, the reader cannot just go on living with the same perspective, or lack of perspective, of sexuality as a normal mundane act.
It is about a young woman who wakes up one normal morning to find a penis instead of her big toe! From then on her normal mundane sex life as well as her whole life take out an abnormal path! Her life starts revolving around strange sexual encounters. She befriends the Flower Show which is made up of people who also suffer from sexual abnormalities. Although this book is about sex and penises it rarely does anything to get the reader in the mood! On the contrary it describes the sexual encounters and the thoughts clouding Kazumi's thoughts (the protagonist) in such a striking plain manner that it detaches the reader from the thrill of sex immediately. The novel is meant to place the reader in an unemotional position watching Kazumi's emergence from naivete to adulthood. Almost the whole book (except the Prologue & Epilogue) is written from Kazumi's point of view so as the book progresses the majority of Kazumi's thoughts and reflections start affecting the reader's thoughts about sexuality. Also the enlargement of sexual bodily abnormalities by the author place the reader in a position to reflect about ordinary sexuality. After finishing the book, the reader cannot just go on living with the same perspective, or lack of perspective, of sexuality as a normal mundane act.