It's this weird bildungsroman about a boy who gets separated from his village and family and has to survive in the world of 'bush ghosts' on his own. It has a lot of folkloric and horror elements.

-"And it was that day I believed that if fear is overmuch, a person would not fear for anything again."

-good/sad/beautiful part about singing the sad song of his village

-so much sacrificing, dancing, and feasting

-get-togethers, conferences,

-'flash-eyed mother' chapter reads like adventure time

-surreal, dreamlike, nighmarish, but also kind of funny

-also, gross, lots of bodily descriptions of smells and ugly excretions

-"I shall not do any evil work throught my life-time in this Bush of Ghosts."

-"clean places are driving a dirty person away as if it will hurt him." in the nameless town chapter.

-several scenes of him in front of figures of authority having to answer for a misdeed or mistake he did not wilfully do. kings, gods, judges, wizardkings, etc.

The final statement is so jarring, but also makes a lot of sense.