Status Updates From Watersong

‘Was it alright for him to be happy? Could he afford to feel this way, after all the mistakes he had made?’

This book is so haunting and eerie, but I can’t figure out why. I feel like we’re sitting outside looking in on Shouji’s life, and we’re not allowed into his thoughts and feelings, so he comes across as cold and desperate.

What year is it that someone can still write about accidental drunk sex?? It better be clarified later