Hangman

read for barn sour book club in august. not a thing i normally would have picked up for myself, but a quick read nonetheless. there's something here about separation and alienation -- person from homeland, reason from emotion, and ultimately body from self. but understanding that something exists in the text isn't the same as "getting it," per se.

This story is just a bit fable-like or absurdist. The protagonist is a calm observer/listener of the things around him - at least in the bit that I read.

The narration has a light hearted, almost silly feel that just doesn’t work for me.