What an absolute trip. I went in thinking this was an interesting (and at times gory) literary horror novel, but I came out with something almost entirely different. The Reddit thread interpreting the book is super interesting and illuminates some potential hidden meanings that I didn’t pick up on on the first read. I can’t remember ever reading a book this open to interpretation before, and I think Awad did so in a way that still feels satisfying. Such a strange storm of a book.