03122cam a2200337 4500 574805982 TxAuBib 20220507120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802157027 0802157025 B085MM5D93 Amazon 0c653cea-0c3c-4e94-86fe-d71950a8f756 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5333099 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Murata, Sayaka. Earthlings [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Grove Atlantic, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 873kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b>From the beloved author of cult sensation <i>Convenience Store Woman</i>, 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</b> <p>Sayaka Murata's <i>Convenience Store Woman</i> 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 <i>Earthlings</i>, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of social conformity in this brilliantly imaginative, intense, and absolutely unforgettable novel.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Dreamlike, sometimes shocking, and always strange and wonderful, <i>Earthlings</i> 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.</p>. Literature. Fantasy. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-05 20:00:03. Takemori, Ginny Tapley. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0c653cea-0c3c-4e94-86fe-d71950a8f756&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0c653cea-0c3c-4e94-86fe-d71950a8f756&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0c653cea-0c3c-4e94-86fe-d71950a8f756&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)