Maggot Moon

Maggot Moon is different from anything I've read before. I don't even know how to label it. Historical dystopia, maybe? I'm not sure ‘alternate history' does it, although it is an alternate history of some sort, set in an universe which took obvious inspiration from Nazi Germany and Orwell's 1984. It's a beautiful, touching story—as disturbing as it is moving, with compelling characters and unique prose.