All right! Kafka on the Shore. I have incredibly mixed feelings about this one. It was so fascinating and so finely crafted, and there were many wrenchingly beautiful, haunting passages. It's a hard one to recommend, though, since I feel like before you could you'd have to ask the very awkward question "how do you feel about incest?" There are few questions as awkward, even questions about breakfast preferences.
It also could be triggering, and has a piece related to SA with which I took serious issue. That said, it is still compelling and thought provoking. Some illustrative quotes:
"People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues [italics in original]"
"I was afraid someday I'd lose this person. So I had to let go myself. If he was going to be stolen away from me, or I was going to lose him by accident, I decided it was better to discard him myself."
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