Otherness


Convenience Store Woman
Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
Americanah
The Vegetarian
I Who Have Never Known Men
A Little Life
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
The Stranger
The Bluest Eye
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi VoCirce by Madeline MillerPractical Magic by Alice HoffmanConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Outsider Women
161 books — 12 voters
The Chain by Robin LamontAnimal Listeners by R. Aveen2020 The Animal Uprising, And So It Begins by Colin C. EvansBarn 8 by Deb Olin UnferthBête by Adam Roberts
The Lives of Animals (Fiction)
102 books — 4 voters

Aleksandar Hemon
“ Mujo is a refugee in Germany, has no job, but has a lot of time, so he goes to a Turkish bath. The bath is full of German businessmen with towels around their waists, huffing and puffing, but every once in a while a cell phone rings and they pull their phone out from under the towel and say, Bitte? Mujo seems to be the only one without a cell phone, so he goes to the bathroom and stuffs toilet paper up his butt. He walks back out, a long trail of toilet paper behind him. So a German says, you ha ...more ”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

Erik Pevernagie
“ When words remain unspoken and emotions are left unexpressed, just a glint in the eyes from otherness can inflame the mind and rouse a shower of empathy. ("Only needed a light ") ...more ”
― Erik Pevernagie

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