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This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an ordinary house at the end …
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a …
4.5 rounded up to 5. A near future dystopia that is not much different to the world we are already living in. Sadly it seems to be the world that we are intentionally working to achieve. A tech bro utopia perhaps.
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wife and mother who—after losing …
Two months since the stars fell...
Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous …
Two months since the stars fell...
Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous …
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the …
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the …
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what …
4.5 rounded to 5
On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving …
The bestselling author of The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power tells …
Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up or Peter and Wendy, often known …
Caution. Spoilers ahead
A young, magical, narcissistic sociopath named Peter meets a well-grounded kind girl, named Wendy, and her two brothers. Peter brings them to the magical land of stereotypes, where he rules over a murderous group of young boys whose membership is based upon the agreement that they will never grow up. This is ruthlessly enforced by Peter, who kills anyone who tries.
Wendy is quite enamoured by this cheery young despot, and he makes her the mother of the boys. They live in a kind of domestic bliss in Peter’s underground hideout, while venturing out and having many crazy adventures, mostly revolving around their rivalry with one of the stereotype gangs.
Although Peter does what he can to stop them, eventually Wendy and her brothers manage to return home to their parents, bringing all the young boys in the gang with them. Wendy can then happily grow up, …
Caution. Spoilers ahead
A young, magical, narcissistic sociopath named Peter meets a well-grounded kind girl, named Wendy, and her two brothers. Peter brings them to the magical land of stereotypes, where he rules over a murderous group of young boys whose membership is based upon the agreement that they will never grow up. This is ruthlessly enforced by Peter, who kills anyone who tries.
Wendy is quite enamoured by this cheery young despot, and he makes her the mother of the boys. They live in a kind of domestic bliss in Peter’s underground hideout, while venturing out and having many crazy adventures, mostly revolving around their rivalry with one of the stereotype gangs.
Although Peter does what he can to stop them, eventually Wendy and her brothers manage to return home to their parents, bringing all the young boys in the gang with them. Wendy can then happily grow up, while the young boys grudgingly do so. Only Peter remains a child in the magical land, periodically visiting Wendy when his selfish moods move him too. Over time they fall into a pattern of annual visits where Peter takes Wendy’s children, and then grandchildren, and on through the generations to the magical land of stereotypes, but for no longer than one week.
If there is a moral to this story, perhaps it is that children really should grow up because they’re selfish little tyrants, and though it may be a joyful way of being in short doses, perhaps it’s not so great long term.
I really quite liked this book. It’s well written and entertaining, and the author’s way of normalizing the absurdly unreal is almost magical in itself.
