Out is not for the faint of heart but I wish I could recommend this to my book club because there's certainly tons to discuss. It's not a pretty book as it's full of desperate characters in an ugly world. It was also an extremely intense and compelling read. There's actually quite a lot of layers in this book and it stays with you long after you've finished it. It's about being desperate and doing things one would never do in normal circumstances. Out is also about women banding together to save one of their own kind about women discovering their own dark natures and the fragility of some female friendships.
But it's so much more than a crime novel. To say that I loved the book sounds so strange considering it's a psychological crime novel that involves dismemberment. The first time I tried it, I was so turned off by the lurid details that I had to stop. I was so caught up in that world that I just couldn't leave it so I decided to finally read Out, a book that's been on my To-Be-Read pile for years. The latter is a true crime novel set in the underbelly of Tokyo.
That's because there is truth to the saying that 'one book leads to another.' I picked up Out by Natsuo Kirino right after finishing The People Who Ate Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry. I was completely immersed in Japanese fiction a few weeks ago.
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