![]() ![]() ![]() A little over halfway through, tales of endings give way to visions of new beginnings, albeit not here on Earth. ![]() Nicknamed “Snortorious P.I.G.”, he’s a whimsical beast, ravenous for knowledge and poised to teach his human carers much about mortality.Īs the losses pile up, Nagamatsu succeeds in assembling a book that feels energetic despite its base note of mainly muted, sometimes maudlin despair. Overseeing an operation to farm donor organs from pigs, he and his team accidentally breed a pig that’s able to talk. The boy’s father is the focus of another of the novel’s stronger chapters. When he grows close to a mother and her dying son, he finds himself mourning a future he might never have known he wanted. Now, he dons a mouse costume and escorts kids on to the last ride of their short lives at the City of Laughter. In the “before times”, its narrator was an aspiring comedian. It’s at such a park that one of the novel’s more affecting episodes is set. Overseeing an operation to farm donor organs from pigs, he and his team accidentally breed a pig that’s able to talk ![]()
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