From the beloved author of cult sensation Convenience Store Woman,
which has now sold more than one million copies worldwide and has
been translated into thirty-three languages, comes a spellbinding
and otherworldly novel about a woman who believes she is an alien
Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual
and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a
thirty-six-year-old clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now, in
Earthlings, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of
social conformity in this brilliantly imaginative, intense, and
absolutely unforgettable novel. As a child, Natsuki doesn't fit in
with her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend
is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut, who talks to her. He tells
her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special
quest to help her save the Earth. One summer, on vacation with her
family and her cousin Yuu in her grandparents' ramshackle wooden
house in the mountains of Nagano, Natsuki decides that she must be
an alien, which would explain why she can't seem to fit in like
everyone else. Later, as a grown woman, living a quiet life with
her asexual husband, Natsuki is still pursued by dark shadows from
her childhood, and decides to flee the "baby factory" of society
for good, searching for answers about the vast and frightening
mysteries of the universe--answers only Natsuki has the power to
uncover. Dreamlike, sometimes shocking, and always strange and
wonderful, Earthlings asks what it means to be happy in a stifling
world, and cements Sayaka Murata's status as a master chronicler of
the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe.
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