If you want this book contact Tom https://www.tom-cox.com/contact/ and buy it direct from him.
This begins in familiar semi-autobiographical territory – his eye for detail, those little absurd moments of everyday life – and then you start encountering aliens and alpaca and it is not clear how to relate to those chapters – looking at on-line reviews most people seem to have taken them as either irrelevant or as surrealist whimsy – but I just read them with the same semi-autobiographical lens as Benji’s chapters.
This creates interesting thoughts about the relationship between what is in the authors head, what actually appears on the page, and what that results in within the reader’s head – at each stage of translation / reception a lot can be lost and a lot found.
I am a Tom Cox fan, but I will be honest this book didn’t grab me as much as others have, however that is not because of the alpaca and aliens, it is despite of them
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