Earthlings

There are three of them: Natsuki, the girl who possesses a talking hedgehog and magical abilities, is in love with her cousin Yuu, whom she "marries," experiences a trauma that scars her for life, and, when she grows up, enters into a formal marriage with the asexual Tomoya, whose dream is to see the silkworm room from his wife's childhood. The three are different, but there is something that binds them together: all three have come, or are convinced they have come, or imagine they have come - where is the line between fantasy and reality? - from a distant planet with an unpronounceable name. All three are trying to free themselves from what they call the Factory - Earth society with its compulsions - and return to their home planet. To this end they must survive, by all means, the most surprising, the most drastic, and the most shocking. And they do not hesitate to use them. Sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, horror, scary tale - Sayaka Murata mixes genres to create a striking and unique novel.