2015 Reading Challenge, Book 26: Bad Brains by Kathe Koja

Austen is an artist who isn’t creating anymore after some serious mess in his personal life and general artistic frustration. Stuck in a dull 9-5 job and drifting through life, he has a prat fall in a parking lot that leaves him with brain damage and hefty epilepsy. His fits leave him with strange visions of a silverish figure and he takes off on an odyssey to try and find out whether it’s real or not.

Koja’s writing is not immediately accesible, it’s a sensory experience, difficult and often...