The book I relate to the most also happens to be the metamorphosis! I am sorry it is one you relate to as well. My life took a catastrophic turn in my early twenties due to chronic illness, I have experienced immeasurable loss but the greatest losses have been the social losses and the loss of belonging. I first read the metamorphosis after getting sick and it was the most poignant thing I have ever read. Years late I continue to live the life of a giant vermin and I think about the metamorphosis all the time. To me it is perhaps the greatest piece of fiction because it captures such a sad, and mostly unacknowledged, truth, in such a masterful way.
Timely-Huckleberry73
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I have not, but I will now!