Status Updates From The Other Valley

It reminds me of the giver in certain ways. I can kind of see the relevance to Ishiguro and Mandel, but comparing this to Murakami's work... I dont get what Jo Harkin was talking about with that so far.

So far it's really compelling. I think I would have done some extra line editing, some of the chapters take a while to get going and dwindle at the end, but my personal preference is for punchy pacing. I think it also straddles a weird line, the protagonist is in high school but its language is literary, def not YA.