Do you love gory stories? Supernatural spirituality? This will be your new favorite book.
We find out from page one that our narrator survived a horrible burn accident. His descriptions of burn treatment and his accident's details are graphic and terrible - and just when you think you can't take it anymore, he starts to tell you about his pre-burn life ... as a pornographer. Nice!
But the book's really a series of stories: love stories, religious stories, morality stories. These tales are what really hooked me - I wanted to know how they were going to come together, and what we and the narrator were learning through their telling.
In the end, I loved this book. But I'm not sure how to recommend it - it's gross, it's despicable, it's beautiful, and it's literary. Give it a try, and stick with it. You'll be glad you did.
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