Earthlings Av Sayaka Murata

<p><b>A darkly wild novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of <i>Convenience Store Woman</i></b><br><br>How far would you go just to be yourself? <br><br>As a child, Natsuki believed she was an alien, a different species to her earthling family and classmates. She hoped a spaceship would come down and take her home. Now, she lives quietly in an asexual marriage, pretending to be normal. <br><br>But the buried horrors of Natsuki''s past are pursuing her. As she flees the suburbs for the Nagano mountains and a reunion with her beloved cousin Yuu, she wonders, what will it take to escape the earthlings? <br><br><b>''Intimate, deadpan, and unflinchingly unhinged'' <i>Wired</i></b></p>