The Leftovers

A co-worker was telling me about this book (and HBO series) and I was kind of like, whatever, the Rapture, and then she mentioned the weird cults, and I was like, okay, I'm in.

I enjoyed this well enough. It was a pretty fast read, and predictably I liked the cult parts best.

It's kind of frustrating that if this were sci-fi or fantasy or anything else, there would be some kind of explanation given for the Sudden Disappearance, but since this is ~literary fiction~ it's just a ~metaphor for loss and grief~ and no explanation is given. The genre fiction part of me secretly says: eat a dick, literary fiction.