It's one of the most readable and appealing and best and most profound short novels I've ever read in my life.
I am stunned. I read it on kindle & read just 1-2 pages a day, because I didn't want it to end.
It is a fable more than a regular novel, a fable about life. More like The Alchemist, or The Giver, or The Lord of the Flies. And it's so unpretentious we may not see this at first, but it's a thousand times better. (No, I don't know the author, & had never heard of her.) A thousand times better because, no it's not a fable about a utopia that's really a dystopia (Giver) or evil in our hearts & human nature (Lord of the Flies).
It's about life itself and why there has to be change and why there has to be death--open to an afterlife but death on earth -- and loss of loved ones-- so that older generations won't stick around in static endlessness forever but instead new life and lives come after, after the realities and rituals of loss and mourning which are inevitable too-- in successions of new births and new generations of our children and children's children and their children.
The novel subtly shows and so that kids can understand too why we are here is a mystery and why in this mystery there has to be change and death and sadness so that our children and our new generations can come into being and eventually to replace us and to take over and have a chance to be born and themselves to live their lives. Again until they give birth to their own children and newer generations who will eventually replace them too, and with mourning too, and that it has to be, it's inevitable, and that even with the sadness it can't be any other way, and that time heals-- and meanwhile that there could be at least a possibility of an afterlife.
These ares why this book is so profound, and a thousands times more so than many novels with fancier reputations like The Giver and Lord of the Flies. Please let's allow this short to middle-sized unpretentious novel, this addictively readable and astounding fable of life, achieve the reputation it hopefully soon will. For everyone, from middle grades to senior citizens. It comes as an eye-opener and a revelation. I'm thankful that I've had the good luck to read it.
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