Quick & purposeful, though the story gives the impression of a meandering journey. The last few chapters startled & kept me up last night to finish the book.
The descriptions are jarring, often comic, but also unsettling: A woman getting out of a pool is something monstrous. A preacher carries Jesus in his head “like a stinger.” Cat-faced babies. The sky is a “surly gray like the back of an old goat.”
First read of 2022.