Powerful book with lots of hard truths reflected on humanity by the mirror of irrevent fatalistic narrative. I read this in a single sitting, equally gripped and repulsed by the stories related in the fantastic non-linear timeline. This for me, like Camus' The Plague, The Stranger and Phillip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly is more than fiction: all these books are mirrors made from truths and eased into our brains by the trickery of fiction. Amazing work.