This book is very strange. It was well written, and I did enjoy it, despite the unnerving, distressing, dystopian setting and plot. What’s more, I didn’t understand the ending. He falls into a manhole, and then he says he lives in the hole? But that it’s a nice, comfortable hole. And he’s getting ready to become visible again? I suppose I don’t understand any of it. Horribly distressing the way these people make this brotherhood out to be their religion, and then, of course, it fails them.
He starts out the novel as a horrible, violent, jaded person. He then begins the origin story, which is a rambling tale traveling through his life, and, in my opinion, spending a bit too much time in this unnamed character’s brain, thinking he should join the brotherhood, and then he should not, and then he will rebell and then he won’t.
And then, everything falls apart, and this character is a little happy about it, and he falls into the hole, and it ends with saying that maybe he’ll be ready to come out of the hole and be a person again sometime soon. This is one of those where I know there’s something deep, insightful, and interesting there, but I’m just missing it.