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Author:

Murata, Sayaka, 1979- author.

Title:

Earthlings : a novel / Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.

Edition:

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Grove Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

247 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
Imagination in children--Fiction.
Imaginary companions--Fiction.
Cousins--Fiction.
Extraterrestrial beings--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Takemori, Ginny Tapley, translator.

Other Titles:

Chikyu seijin. English

Notes:

"Originally published as Chikyu seijin. Japanese edition published by Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo"--Title page verso.

Summary:

"As a child, Natsuki doesn't fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. Each summer, Natsuki counts down the days until her family drives into the mountains of Nagano to visit her grandparents in their wooden house in the forest. One summer, her cousin Yuu confides to Natsuki that he is an extraterrestrial, and Natsuki starts to wonder if she might be an alien too. Later, as a married woman, Natsuki feels forced to fit in to a society she deems a "baby factory" but wonders if there is more to the world than the mundane reality everyone else seems to accept. The answers are out there, and Natsuki has the power to find them. Dreamlike, sometimes shocking, and always strange and wonderful, Earthlings asks what it means to be happy in a stifling world, and cements Sayaka Murata's status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0802157009
9780802157003

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1181840856

LCCN:

2020033625

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FCPB384 -- Dike Public Library (Dike)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)