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Brittany Ramsay
Honestly, if the inside flap hadn't started with "Kazu is dead." ...I would have completely missed this as well!!! Even after finishing I flipped back through to see if I missed any obvious suggestions but it still would have went over my head hahah
Lee
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Ryan
You certainly cannot be the only person. Largely because the protagonist's existence in life was identical to his time as a haunting spirit. There, but not really there. An observer only, even to his own family. Although I thought it was made explicit in the opening, on re-reading a bit of it I now see that much of it could as easily be taken as a living man referring to the time before he became homeless. As opposed to a spirit speaking about his time among the living. There are also many times where it seems unclear whether he is recalling an experience from his life, or is observing as a spirit. But it really doesn't matter, and this is a big part of the book. So you may have missed it, but you still didn't really miss much. Especially the commentary on the nature of being homeless.
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