The Boy in the Earth
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An unnamed taxi driver in Tokyo has experienced a rupture from his everyday life. He cannot stop daydreaming of suicide, envisioning himself returning to the earth in what soon become terrifying blackout episodes. His live-in girlfriend, Sayuko, is in a similarly bad phase, surrendering to alcoholism to escape the memory of her miscarriage. He meets with the director of the orphanage where he once lived, and must confront awful memories of his past and an abusive family before determining what to do next.
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Quick read in which every word seems both deliberate and organic. The characters are deeply broken and even in their self-destruction and hopelessness there is a poetry and a sense that beyond hope or the lack thereof there is being because that's what it's all about at the end of the day.
