debut novel from the author of “A Little Life”, this book is written from the perspective of an obnoxious, morally questionable, but undeniably brilliant doctor/scientist who goes to a small island to study a society in which the inhabitants have discovered a form of immortality— with the drawback that the body is preserved while the mind continues to age and deteriorate, making them perhaps more animal than human. i’m halfway through and the book is grotesquely detailed and multilayered— we are introduced to the “author” of the memoir first by the announcement of his imprisonment for abusing one or some of his 43 adopted children from the island that he studied. the writing is so creative and the premise is so insane, i’m excited to see where it goes!
