Book description
Have you ever been in love? Truly, madly, deeply?Only to lose it? Your tether suddenly snapped.How broken can you become?And how can you ever hope to piece yourself back together?This is a love story.
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1 author picked Cuckoo as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
M. Ennenbach’s CUCKOO is a love story, a dark fantasy, a horror story, a book of poetry, a literary experiment, and… and, well, I could probably think of a few other ways to describe it, but my point is that you can’t pin it down, and its refusal to be typical while always being a pleasure to read makes it great. Experience with love and loss shatters the main character, who has a sometimes-debilitating mental illness, and since he is shattered, the book is shattered as well. It appears mostly in three types of sections, Before, Now, and After, but…
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